University of Oregon Design Library

The Design Library and asked our patrons what their hopes, fears, and dreams were during our return to in-person classes from fall 2021-winter 2022. We compiled the responses in a zine, which will be added to the Design’s Library’s Special Collections. A limited number of copies will be available for free, but you can also access a digital version through the link in our Instagram bio.

Some responses were heartwarming, some heartbreaking. Please look out for each other during these strange times 💛

Thank you again to the ARTD 250 students from last term for exhibiting your work at our library! 👏 👏 👏

New books at Design! 🎉

This new Mickalene Thomas catalog is a treasure.

Zines from last term’s ARTD 250 course are on display at the Design Library!

From pointed arches to modern horror, Roger Luckhurst’s ‘Gothic: An Illustrated History’ is a fantastic visual reference book for all things “gothic” across history and media. Available to check out now 🧛‍♀️

Recent acquisition! ‘There Are No Homos*xuals in Iran’ by Laurence Rasti is an intimate photobook capturing glimpses of life between same s*x partners living in a largely homophobic society. The title is a response to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim that homos*xuality is not as prevalent in Iran as it is in western societies.

Jo Tominaga, Frontispiece (1941) from our Student Architectural Drawings Collection!

Spring Break 2022 hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Closed on Saturday and Sunday. Building access limited to College of Design students, staff, and faculty. Normal spring hours will return on Monday, March 28. Happy Spring Break!

Zines from this term’s ARTD 250 course (Print Media Digital Arts) are on rotating display in our library now until April 11!

Throwback to our ‘Circa Surrealism’ exhibit featuring a special “suitcase-book” modeled after Duchamp’s ‘Boîte-en-valise’ with 2D reproductions of some of his most notable works and an essay by Octavio Paz. Stay tuned for more info on our upcoming spring/summer exhibit 📚

UO Common Reading and UO Global Justice Grant facilitator seek UO student art submission for a new exhibition: Unceded Kinship. Email submissions and questions to [email protected]

Project goals include:
Honoring the past, present, and future of Native and Afro descendent peoples. Restoring and reviving our relationship to one another and to the natural world. Holding and regarding kinship, solidarity, and community as sacred. Refusing the narratives of erasure, dehumanization, and subjugation. Envisioning a future rooted in Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty.