Graphic Arts & Design

Resources concerning applied/commercial arts and design, including but not limited to graphic design, printmaking, illustration, book arts.

Resources in this category:

Ad*Access
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America (1935-1955)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/

"This Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the homes of notable Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S. presidents, as well as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Many of the photographs were commissioned by architects, designers, owners and architectural publications, and document important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior design."

Art Nouveau World Wide
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/artnouveau/en/

"The site provides an overview of the Art Nouveau movement. It features a sensitive map showing the centres of the Movement in Europe, plus a list by town and country of centres in Europe and America. These link to ideas, artists or buildings of relevance to Art Nouveau in that area. Also included are lists of artists, architects, designers, FAQ¹s, forthcoming related exhibitions, museums, and other links."

Beautiful Birds
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/

"'Beautiful Birds' traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques - from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography - during that period. The exhibition includes books from Cornell Library's Hill Ornithology Collection and art works on loan from the personal collection of benefactors Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill." The site features an online exhibit and timeline, along with biographies of the artists. A bibliography and a guide to Cornell's ornithological collections are also included.

The Book of Zines
http://www.zinebook.com/

This comprehensive and regularly updated site includes extensive references, information, interviews, articles and links about zines and e-zines.

By the People, for the People: Posters of the WPA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

This site contains a collection of over 900 posters produced by the Work Projects Administration during FDR's New Deal. Topics range from health and safety to World War II.

Emergence of Advertising in America
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/

"EAA presents over 9,000 images that illustrate the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. The images are drawn from over a dozen separate collections in the Hartman Center and Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The project organizes the materials into eleven categories. In most of those categories the images shown represent only a portion of a particular collection or series. For EAA we selected representative images, including primarily items or pages that are especially informative and visually interesting."

Net Art
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48510

This IPL pathfinder is designed to help you find net-specific art which is also known as Net Art. Sites are listed where you can see Net Art on the web and how to search for these sites. Print sources, such as periodicals about interactive art and web design are also included.

Publishing/Graphics Arts Glossary
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/eyn3.htm

"This glossary contains the technical and business terms from the fields of publishing, photography, computers, graphic design and printing." The list is an excerpt from the book "Editing Your Newsletter - How to Produce an Effective Publication Using Traditional Tools and Computers," by Mark Beach.

SYMBOLS.com -- Online Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
http://www.symbols.com/

"The world's largest on-line encyclopedia of graphic symbols." Search by symbol shape and components or by word. The symbols range from historical to contemporary, and are supplemented by articles about their history, use, and meaning.

Web Graphics 101
http://cs-cert.unisa.ac.za/internet/resources/webgraphics101...

Provides a nuts-and-bolts approach to creating graphics for the Web, including interactive tutorials. Great for beginners or even advanced graphic designers new to creating Web graphics.

World War II Poster Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii...

This database contains images and description of World War II era posters promoting the U.S. war effort on topics ranging from material conservation to secrecy. "The Government Publications Department at Northwestern University Library has a very comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945." The database is searchable by keyword, title, date, or agency. You can also look at all the posters arranged by date, title, or topic. Records include a description of the poster--artist, title, publisher, date, notes, subjects, etc.--and thumbnail and full-screen views of each poster.