The year 1961 saw the establishment of the Design department, then called the Department of Artistic Construction of Industrial Products, at the Vilnius Academy of Art. Marking this occasion, one of the 2011 issues of Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis is dedicated to texts on design, which span both Lithuanian and international contexts. The texts included in this publication encompass a variety of writing genres (art history studies, essays, interviews, publication of primary sources) and design spheres: from research of interior, object and graphic design to design choreography.
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The volume traces the connections not only between the different geographical and problematic contexts, but also between the researchers from Uruguay/Slovakia, Poland/Argentina, Lithuania/USA, USA/Denmark, Germany/USA, Poland and Lithuania.
The coat of arms of Lithuania Vytis – a mounted armoured knight depicted on a red shield – has already entered its seventh century.
