Petra Eisele

Petra Eisele studied art history and German studies and earned her doctorate at the Berlin University of the Arts on the development of postmodern design since the 1960s. From 2000 to 2003, she was a research associate in design history and theory at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; she also conducted research at the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2006, she became a professor of design history and design theory at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. In 2008, Eisele was a founding member of the Society for Design History. Her publications include *Texte zur Typografie* (2012), *Neue Schriften* (2013), *Klassiker des Produktdesigns* (2014), and *Design. Texte zur Geschichte und Theorie* (2018, with Gerda Breuer).