Subject Resource Guide for Graphic Design and Computer Graphics

Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 Program in Graphic Design and Computer Graphics. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.

Journals and Magazines

Tompkins Cortland Community College Library subscribes to a number of Databases which provide access to full-text articles from journals and newspapers. You can also consult our list of Electronic Journals by Title & Subject which lists holdings in Art, Architecture & Applied Arts and Advertising. Artnews, Communication Arts, How, and Print are available in the library for browsing. The titles are listed below are available through our Databases or at the publication's website.

• Advertising Age
• Adweek
• AJR NewsLink
• Art News Online
• Communication Arts
• Design News
• Design, Type and Graphics Magazine
• Design Week
• Graphic Arts Monthly - Full-text in Proquest
• Graphis
• IDOnline.com - The International Design Magazine
• Information Week
• Mediaweek
• Metropolis
• Packaging World Magazine
• Printworks Magazine

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Advertising

• Ad*Access - Online image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed mainly in U.S. newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. From the collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History at Duke University. See also The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
• Ad Council
• American Advertising Museum
• American Sign Museum
• Clio Awards
• Retrolounge
• Robert Opie Collection

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Associations & Organizations

• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) - There is a Designer Directory
• Art Directors Club
• Computer Graphics Society
• Graphic Artists Guild
• IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance)
• Society of Illustrators

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Design Schools

• Art Center College of Design
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Cranbrook Academy
• Graphic Design Schools
• Parsons
• Pratt Institute
• Rhode Island School of Design
• School of Visual Arts

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Designers

• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) - Has information on Medalists
• Alvin Lustig (1915-1955) - "Modern design pioneer."
• Christopher Colville-Walker
• Harriet Russell
• Milton Glaser
• Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
• Peter Max
• William Morris Society

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Illustrators

• Art of Illustration: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Children's Book Illustrators
• Randolph Caldecott Medal

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Image Collections

• ArtCyclopedia: Fine Art Search Engine
• Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) - Images of art and architectural works in the public domain
• Bilder ur Nordens Flora - 526 Swedish plants
• Cartoonbank - Searchable database of over 20,000 New Yorker cartoons and covers.
• Corbis
• Finding Art Images Online
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Thinker Imagebase
• Flora Danica - Danish plant database
• Getty Images
• Illustrated Garden - 127 rare gardening books with thousands of botanical illustrations. (Look for the orchids in A monograph of Odontoglossum by James Bateman.)
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• Merrill C. Berman Collection
• National Archives of Canada Documentary Art Database
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery - See also the NYPL Picture Collection.
• SILS Art Image Browser
• Smithsonian American Graphic Arts
• Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Has a Design Search Code Manual. You can search for trademarks on the Trademark Electronic Search System(Tess) page.

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Museums

• Archives of American Art
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum - New York
• Design Museum - London
• Museum of Arts and Design - New York
• Musuem of Modern Art - New York

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

Advertising layout and typography
Art - History
Art - Technique
Book design
Color
Commercial art
Communication in design
Computer art
Computer graphics
Decoration and ornament
Decorative Arts
Design
Design - History
Drawing
Graphic arts
Graphic design
Illustrators
Illustration of books
Layout (Printing)
Magazine covers
Magazine design
Printing
Television
Type and type-founding
Typography
Video art
Visual communication
Names of specific artists)

These are the Library of Congress classifications numbers if you just want to browse the TC3 collection

Posters

• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
• Canadian War Poster Collection
• The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
• International Poster Collection - Colorado State University
• Library of Congress Poster Collection
• 1920s Transit Posters
• Polish Poster Collection - RIT
• Posters American Style
• Swiss Poster Collection
• World War II Poster Collection

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Reference

• Getty Union List of Artist Names
• SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
• SYMBOLS.com: Encyclopaedia of Western Signs and Ideograms

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Search Engines & Subject Directories

• ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
• Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine
• Design Links

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Typography

• Letterbox
• Emigre - Has information on
• Font Pages
• FontSite
• Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
• Microsoft Typography
• Type Directors Club

Last update: Monday, February 11, 2008