LibGuides: Art History: ARH300

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Artist/Creator
Movement/Style/Period
Location/Region
Technique/Medium

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Visual communication

Color in visual communication

Visual communication in art

Graphic arts

Commercial art

Advertising

Advertisements

Color in advertising

Popular culture in advertising

Advertising, Outdoor

Television advertising

Newspaper advertising

Book and Magazine Covers

Book Jackets

Book Wrappers

Sound recordings Album covers

Record album covers

Record jackets

Art and music

Music in art

Posters

Film posters

Rock music Posters

Signs and signboards

Signs and symbols

Typographic design

Typography

Advertising layout and typography

Magazines (periodicals)

Cartoons

Stickers

Street Art Graphics

Product design

Packaging

Branding (Marketing)

Web Resources

The Ad*Access Project from Duke University Libraries
The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
AdViews from Duke University Libraries
The AdViews digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.
AIGA Design Archives
The AIGA archives and special collections serve to identify, preserve, and make collections of enduring value available to the public. With more than 20,000 selections dating back to 1924, the AIGA Design Archives is a vital record of all disciplines of communication design.
AIGA Design Medalists
Medals have been awarded since 1920 to individuals who have set standards of excellence over a lifetime of work or have made individual contributions to innovation within the practice of design. Search here for the recipients and their biographical profiles.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Online Collection
This website represents Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s diverse collection, spanning thirty centuries of historic and contemporary design.
Designers Bios at the Graphic Design Archive Online, RIT
The Graphic Design Archive (GDA) at Rochester Institute of Technology documents and preserves the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
DPLA connects people to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and much more, held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials are free and immediately available in digital format. Browse by topic to narrow your search.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 from Duke University Libraries
This collection presents over 3,300 items relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. Browse by collection to narrow your search.
Media History Digital Library
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound, led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The New York Public Library Digital Collection
The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 884,351 items and counting, representative of the diversity of the vast collections—from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more.
A Short Introduction to Graphic Design History
This site was first put on the web in 1999 by Nancy Stock-Allen, professor at Moore College of Art and Design as a quick outline of her lectures for graphic design students.

A&A ePortal

Art & Architecture ePortal
Art & Architecture ePortal is an eBook collection of key scholarly works in the fields of art, design, and architectural history published by The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

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A&A ePortal

Some of the eBooks available from the Library