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RMIT Design Archives

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design Letterbox | editors Prof. Harriet Edquist, Prof. Sarah Teasley, Dr. Noel Waite | client RMIT Design Archives, RMIT University

Housed alongside the iconic RMIT Design Hub, the RMIT Design Archives (RDA) offers an ever-expanding design collection ranging across a wide range of disciplines. The archive disseminates its collection through a regular journal, one of the very few peer-reviewed design journals in Australia. The journal publishes important design research, including projects emerging directly from the collection, opening up this ‘living archive’ to the design community and beyond.

The RMIT Design Archives Journal is one of the very few peer-reviewed design publications in Australia.
Established in 2011, the rda journal has grown to become one of the few (possibly only) peer-reviewed Australian design journals.
Journal Vol 14 Nº1 focussed on 30 years of Fashion and Textiles research, whilst Journal Vol 9 Nº2 centred on the work and legacy of architect Robin Boyd.
A very special issue of the RMIT Design Archives Journal (Nº 13.1) centring on the design culture of 1980s Melbourne, to accompany the exhibition Radical Utopias – An Archaeology of a Creative City.
Flexible system of large-scale curtain banners for both display and light protection.

The Frederick Romberg Collection on exhibition at the RMIT Design Archives.

The special multi-poster issue produced using the Frederick Romberg Collection.