A focused look at German wallpaper advertisements that used colourful, humorous imagery from 1970 to present modern designs. The available evidence establishes the approach, but does not allow individual campaigns to be reconstructed.
The Macintosh 128K arrived in 1984 with a graphical interface and a mouse. Its history also calls for a distinction between being first and bringing an idea to a broad audience.
The history of Madrid’s museum shows how ideas about objects changed: from promoting industrial products and teaching techniques to interpreting contexts of production, consumption and use.
Disco often stands in for seventies fashion, but sources also point to the coexistence of bohemian, punk and androgynous styles. A look at what can be said—and what the available references do not allow us to generalize—about clothing, accessories and diversity.
A look at how automotive collections turn cars, engines and documents into historical narratives—and at what the available sources can establish about museums in Italy and Spain.
Showing fashion involves more than displaying garments: it means explaining their history and use, as well as the material limits that determine what can be seen and for how long.
The magazine, comic book, album and collected edition are not interchangeable wrappers: each format organizes the reading and circulation of comics differently. A cautious tour through the available sources, from early Spanish publications to the smaller place magazines occupy today.
A museum’s graphic design is more than decoration or signage: it guides attention, communicates an identity and can contribute to an educational experience. Research on museums in Valencia and guidance on museum archives offer ways to consider what should be documented—and what the available evidence does not establish.
Caring for a collection is not limited to its objects: it also depends on documentation, accessibility and the conditions of the spaces that house them. Institutional sources help explain what can—and cannot—be said about decoration as part of the museum experience.
Collections and studies of Spanish toys invite us to look beyond the object itself: at materials, industry, use and preservation. They also show where the available evidence ends and interpretation begins.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Spanish comics magazines coexisted with new formats, channels and audiences. Their story is not simply one of rise and disappearance: it shows how the ways of publishing and discovering comics changed.
Posters, packaging and advertisements do more than promote products: they also record ways of designing and communicating. What archives and museums can tell us about that memory—and where caution is needed.
