Collection helps designers travel through time

Hidden away on the second floor of Swinburne University Library in Prahran is one of Melbourne’s best-kept secrets, the Swinburne Design Special Collection. The collection houses full historical runs of magazines such as Australian Women’s Weekly, Art in Australia, Pix, Architectural Digest, The Lone Hand, Art in Australia, The Australian Home Beautiful, Architecture and Arts and much more. Built up over many years, it provides a valuable source of magazines and publications of design significance. Both staff and students of Swinburne’s Faculty of Design use these primary resources for research into the history of design in Australia.