Recent Research Outputs
Books
Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar
Reaktion Books 2020
Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware, Bloomsbury Academic 2013
Computer,
Reaktion Books 2010
Designing Impact!: Approaches to Applied Research,
Northend, Sheffield 2011
Special Issues of Journals
Ghosts of the Profession, Special Issue of the Journal of Design History, 21(4), 2008
Do-It-Yourself: Democracy and Design, Special Issue of the Journal of Design History, 19(1), 2006
Recent Journal Articles
Hairy Guys in Sheds
Design and Culture, 10(3): 139-168, 2018
Closing in on Open Design
Design Journal, 17 (3): 361-377, 2014
Room with a VDU
Interiors, 5 (1): 89-115, 2014
The Curious Case of the Kitchen Computer
Journal of Design History, 23 (2): 163-179, 2010
Boundaries? What Boundaries?
Design Journal, 13 (2): 137-155, 2010
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Design Issues, 24 (4): 3-25
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
Design Issues, 23 (3): 46-61, 2007
Man in a Briefcase:
Journal of Design History, 18 (2): 191-205, 2005
Documentary Films
Heath, V (Dir) & Atkinson, P (Writer) Three Chords and the Truth. (2019)
Heath, V (Dir) & Atkinson, P (Writer) Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution. (2019)
Selected Chapters in Books
‘Amateur Design’, in Massey, A (Ed.) A Companion to Contemporary Design Since 1945, Wiley-Blackwell,
373-392, 2019
‘Writing The Design History of Computers’, in Sparke, P & Fisher, F (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Design Studies, Taylor & Francis, 111-122, 2016
'The Graphical User Interface', & 'The iMac G3', in Lees-Maffei, G (Ed) Iconic Designs
Bloomsbury: 88-91 & 146-149, 2014
'Orchestral Manoeuvres in Design' in, Van Able, B (Ed.) Open Design Now, BIS Publishers,: 24-31, 2011
Exhibitions Curated
Automake and Future Factories (2008)
Sleaford, Lincoln
Do It Yourself: Democracy & Design (2006)
Barnsley; Middlesex
Future Factories: Design Work by Lionel Dean (2003/4)
Barnsley; Halifax; Huddersfield; Milan; London