Library Guides: Design Library Guide: Overview and Background

Databases

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window
The leading source of abstracts and records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelry, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text and indexing for art journals, magazines and books. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. Also includes over 63,000 images.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central This link opens in a new window
Bloomsbury Fashion Central (fka The Berg Fashion Library) provides fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Online. NOTE: There is a limit of 3 concurrent users.
Architectural Digest Archive This link opens in a new window
A collection of the international design magazine from its first issue in 1920 through 2011, presented in a cover-to-cover format. Each issue features photography and information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and various products.
Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
The Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index is an archive of indexed art history journals. Covering Western European and American fine arts and some decorative arts, it indexes prominent international art history periodicals from the mid-1850s through the 1960s.

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A Companion to Contemporary Design Since 1945 by Anne Massey (Editor); Dana Arnold (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781119111184
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
A critical overview of contemporary design and its place within the broader context of art history; A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 introduces readers to a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the complex areas of design that emerged through the latter half of the twentieth century, design history, design methods, design studies and more recently, design thinking.
Fashion Design by Sue Jenkyn Jones; Sue Jones
ISBN: 9780823016440
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Fashion Design is a primer on the industry for the twenty-first century, uniting history, theory, and practice in one indispensable book. Topics include the language of clothing, patterns, fabrics, and making techniques, how to build a collection and portfolio, and how to present on the catwalk and in the office.
Product Design by Alex Milton; Paul Rodgers
ISBN: 1856697517
Publication Date: 2011-07-27
Product Design offers a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of product design and the key role of product designers. Following through all the stages and activities involved in the creation of a new product from concept design to manufacture, prototyping to marketing this book also explores the diverse nature of product design, including new and emerging forms of practice.