Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois
Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a founding editor and now co-editor of the academic design journal Design Issues.
Professor Margolin has published widely on diverse design topics including design history, social design, design for development, design education, and design theory. He has lectured at conferences, universities, and art schools in many parts of the world. and has also taught studio seminars at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and the Politecnico de Milano, where he co-taught a seminar for service design students on The Good Society. Books that he has written, edited, or co-edited include The American Poster Renaissance; Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion, WW II;The Promise and the Product; The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1936, Design Discourse, Discovering Design, The Idea of Design, The Designed World; Images, Objects, Environments, The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies,Culture is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art, and Design and the Risk of Change (in Portuguese). His books have also been translated into five languages. The first two volumes of his three-volume World History of Design were published in April 2015.
