Herman Miller | Virtual Fellowship
Amy Auscherman, Corporate Archivist, Herman Miller, took us through the rarely-seen archives. Here, we get an exclusive look at the works of design greats such as Alexander Girard, Charles & Ray Eames, and George Nelson who all helped inform the future of modern design and Herman Miller. Amy gave us great stories, the inside scoop on the company’s history, and examples of the multiple ways to use a company’s archives to design for the future.
“Amy Auscherman talking about archives and brand heritage at Herman Miller raised fascinating questions about both the future and past of the design profession.”
Amy Auscherman
Amy Auscherman is Head of Archives & Brand Heritage at Herman Miller, Inc. She has led the company’s design archive and served as an editor for WHY Magazine since 2014. Auscherman co-edited the monograph Herman Miller: A Way of Living published by Phaidon Press in 2019. She has lectured at museums, universities, & conferences on different aspects of design history, including women in the workplace, role of archives in design, and the work of Alexander Girard, Charles & Ray Eames, & George Nelson for Herman Miller. She also contributed essays to exhibition catalogs Serious Play: Design in Mid-Century America and the Eames Furniture Sourcebook. Previously, Auscherman was Archives Assistant at the Indianapolis Museum of Art & worked on the National Endowment for a Humanities-funded project. She holds a Master of Library Science and bachelor’s degree in Art History from Indiana University. Amy shares her design research on Instagram as @acid_free.
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