The whole group of assets encompasses design in its wide scope and is organized in four major areas: Industrial and Product Design, Graphic Design and Visual Communication, Garment and Textile Design, and Thought and Management. As research evolves, these areas of design will expand: architectural, interior, landscape, audiovisual, and multimedia. The material is ordered in different collections based on authors, companies, and institutions, that enable allows simultaneous discussions.
The collection includes design icons chosen due to their territorial distinctiveness, overall quality, and aesthetic, social or technological innovation. It also includes other elements that represent initial stages of the work, previous to the conclusion of the product, for example: maquettes, practice pieces, and prototypes.
The archives are constituted by documents with different formats. Altogether, they reveal not only development techniques but also the creative, strategic, and productive facets of design. The set includes: work process testimonies (notebooks, journals, sketches, notes, blueprints); tridimensional processes (materials tests, maquettes, casts, molds, component and design pieces); oral, visual, and audiovisual records of specific projects and exhibitions (photographs, negatives, slides, plates, audios, and videos); communication and publicity documents (press, files, catalogues, posters, invitations); legal paperwork (letters, reports, patents, certificates). The diversity of these assets enables the reconstruction of processes, as well as the understanding of authors and their ideas.
This category deals with the development of everyday use objects, luminaire, furniture, electric appliances, artifacts, urban and public space equipment, vehicles, medical technology, machinery, and industry related products, among other creations that belong to a key area in terms of national economic development and living standard. It also involves the careers of authors, companies, and projects that have contributed to expand all specialties in the field.
This category comprises the development of identity systems, packagings, advertising campaigns, publications, fonts, signage, iconography, infographies, web and multimedia image, among other pieces that constitute the broad visual production and strategic communication fields; as well as the authors, companies, and projects that have shaped it.
Esta categoría abarca el desarrollo de indumentaria de moda, técnica –deportiva y de trabajo–, calzado y accesorios corporales, entre otras piezas de notable valor testimonial sobre los modos de vestir de cada grupo social y generacional; así como la trayectoria de los autores, las empresas y los proyectos que modelaron un rubro tan diverso.
Por su parte, el Diseño Textil abarca el desarrollo de tejidos, estampados y materiales aplicados, indispensables para el desarrollo de subproductos de campos como el diseño de indumentaria, de interiores y de mobiliario.
Design history, Theory, and Critique
This category relates to the creation of manifestoes, texts, transdisciplinary analysis, specialized publications and newspaper articles, historiographic and narrative approaches, field research, documental archives and collections, among other study elements that forward interpretations, ideas, and pedagogy about the purpose of design; as well as the trajectories of the authors and institutions that produced them.
Design Management
This category focuses on the development of strategic programs directed to public individuals, companies, and institutions; State policies; institutional networks; productive incubators; R + D projects (research + development); academic programs, outreach and other actions to position the discipline, among other instances that have influenced the activation, administration, and management of design; as well as the careers of all authors that have boosted and participated from these initiatives.
