Design Collection
The Design Collection is used to
support and enhance teaching and research in Design as it relates
to the major curriculum. While the majority of the holdings are
textile and costume items from western as well as developing countries,
basketry, porcelain and glass objects, turn-of-the century architectural
renderings, and a limited number of furniture and architecture-related
pieces have been acquired.
The Collection’s holdings offer students, faculty, and the
community special opportunities for design inspiration and research,
and for developing, designing, and installing interpretive exhibitions.
Objects are frequently displayed and brought to the classroom for
student examination. They serve to illustrate various techniques,
styles, forms, media, and design concepts that are being discussed,
as well as documenting the evolution of technical and stylistic
trends. Faculty and students benefit from having the opportunity
to examine, in detail, an object's texture, dimensionality, and
workmanship.
The department’s Design Museum has mounted major exhibitions
of Collection holdings in 1982, 1986, and 1992, with one planned
for spring 2005. Items have also been exhibited at the California
Crafts Museum in San Francisco, the San Francisco International
Airport Museums, the Los Angeles Theater Center, the Pence Gallery,
Davis, the Sacramento Public Library, The Oakland Museum of California,
and The New Jersey State Museum.
Adele Zhang
Curator, Design Collection
Contact The Curator:
email: azhang
all email addresses at:
@ucdavis.edu
unless noted otherwise