Leah Armstrong
Dr. | MA, BA (Hons.)Member of the Young Academy since 2020
- Department of Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Orcid-ID:
0000-0001-9365-7412
Research Areas:
- Humanities
- Design
- Sociology of work
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- Design History Society (UK)
Selected Publications:
- With McDowell, F (eds.), Fashioning Professionals, ldentity and Representation at Work in the Creative lndustries, (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
- "'Fashions of the Future': Fashion, Gender and the Professionalization of Industrial Design in US Vogue Magazine, February 1939", Design lssues, (Forthcoming 2021).
- "A New Image for a New Profession: Self-Image and Representation in the Professionalisation of Design in Britain 1945–1960", Journal of Consumer Culture, July 2017), Online first, DOI: http://ioumals.saveoub.com/doi/10.1177/1469540517708830
- "Steering a Course between Commercialism and Professionalism: The Society of lndustrial Artists and the Code of Conduct for the Professional Designer 1945-75'', Journal of Design History, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2016), pp. 161–179.
- "Working from home: Fashioning the professional designer in Britain, 1945-l 960", in G. Julier et al. (eds.), Design Culture: Object and Approach, (Bloomsbury, 2018).