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Italianita and Internationalism: production, design and mediation at Alessi 1976-96
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2002-05-01)This article considers the Italian household product design company Alessi as quintessentiall y Italian and international . The interplay of mass-production and craft techniques at Alessi, an extended design process and ... -
Jonathan Woodham
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Judy Attfield
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Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer, Italy/France (Philippe Starck, 1990)
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014-09-01)If iconicity is about being recognizable, then Philippe Starck’s Juicy Salif lemon squeezer is a quintessentially iconic design. Its unique shape has not been seen before or since, even though it is imbued with multiple ... -
Knowing Hands: Using tactile research methods in researching and writing the history of design
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Routledge, 2023-01-01)This chapter emerges from the research and writing of The Hand Book, a design history of, and through, the hands, which explores hands both as a subject in design history and as a method of researching the history of design. ... -
Made in Italy : Rethinking a Century of Italian Design
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-11)Goods made or designed in Italy enjoy a disproportionately high profile, even though, in terms of global manufacturing, Italy’s output is relatively modest. Italy’s glorious design heritage and reputation for innovation ... -
‘Made’ in England? : The Mediation of Alessi S.p.A
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-11-01)The discourse surrounding Italian design often invokes the notion, myth or unofficial brand of ‘made in Italy’ as shorthand for indicating the quality and specialness of Italian design. This chapter interrogates ‘made in ... -
The man in the white suit: Alexander Mackendrick (1951)
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2009-07-30)The Man in the White Suit (TMITWS) is rarely mentioned in relation to design practice, beyond its relevance to “smart fabrics,” but every design professional should see this cautionary tale of an individual battling an ... -
Men, motors, markets and women
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Reaktion Books, 2002-11-01)'See 500 sexy models reveal all.' This Motor Show slogan provides a graphic reminder of the traditional role of women in car culture – as adjuncts rather than drivers. Stephen Bayley’s 1986 essay ‘Sex, Drink and Fast Cars’ ... -
The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed : What’s in a book cover? Grace Lees-Maffei examines a history of graphic design in Russian fiction
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2017-07-13)Book review of The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed -
Norman Shaw
Lees-Maffei, Grace (Routledge, 1997)This Encyclopaedia of Interior Design features 500 + items complete with illustrations. It details an historical account of decoration and design from ancient times to contemporary movements. The descriptions about individuals ... -
Penny Sparke
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The poster session as fusing theory and practice in art and design education: : Exhibiting an occluded genre
Thomas, Peter; Lees-Maffei, Grace (2018-09-01)While the academic poster has been used extensively in the sciences, its particular pertinence in art and design education remains unrecognized. Posters (outputs) and the poster sessions that accompany them (processes) ... -
The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2009-12-01)This article elaborates a production–consumption–mediation (PCM) paradigm in design history, to examine both the development of design history over the past three decades and the current and future practice of design ... -
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Lees-Maffei, Grace; Maffei, Nicolas (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019-02-07)Reading Graphic Design: •Is a much needed examination of graphic design in the expanded field •Forms an introduction to writing critically about graphic design through twelve chapters providing exemplary analyses of the ... -
Real imagined communities: : National narratives and the globalization of design history
Fallan, Kjetil; Lees-Maffei, Grace (2016-01-01)The nation state is no longer the only socio-cultural or political-economic unit forming our identities and experiences, if it ever was, although national and regional histories of design have demonstrated cogent frameworks ... -
Reflections on Design Activism and Social Change
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2012)Uses the 2011 Design History Society annual conference Design Activism and Social Change as a starting point for reflecting on design activism and design reform, their chronologies, convergence and divergence. -
Show/tell : relationships between text, narrative and image
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2007)In 2005 the theorising Visual Art and Design (tVAD) Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire hosted an international conference, Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image <http://www.herts.ac.uk ... -
Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image
Lees-Maffei, Grace; School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Art and Design; Theorising Visual Art and Design (University of Hertfordshire, 2007-08-01)I edited this volume of the TVAD Research Group's double-blind peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal with papers developed from TVAD's conference of the same name, which I convened at UH in 2005.