InfoGuides: VCDE 701 Design History Seminar: Digital Images

Last Updated: Jan 29, 2024 4:20 PM

Digital Images

Highlighted below are databases RIT Libraries subscribes to and has created featuring digital images related to your design history seminar. Be sure to scroll down to see additional sources that can help with Who What When...Final Presentation and Term Paper.

Artstor

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor includes over 2 million images covering art, architecture, archaeology, and photography; all available for use in research and teaching. Images come with high-quality metadata from collection catalogers, curators, institutions, and artists themselves. Please note: As of August 1, 2024, Artstor's content, key resources, and functionality will be available on JSTOR. The stand-alone Artstor website will be retired. Most Artstor content is already available on JSTOR and can be accessed via https://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/images. DONATED: From the C. B. Neblette Collection on Photography and Reprography and a gift from Harold R. and Marian Condit.
Proquest Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue.

Resources Outside RIT Libraries

Ad*Access (Duke University)
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
Life Magazine (Google Books)
Life Magazine is a photographic magazine chronicling the 20th Century. Browse all issues of Life Magazine in full color and search the full text through Google Books.

RIT Digital Collections

RIT Digital Collections
This website represents some of the digital resources from numerous collections available through the RIT Libraries including works from the the RIT Archives, Cary Graphic Arts Collections, Cary Graphic Design Archives, and RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive. High-resolution images of posters, sketchbooks, packaging, and editorial design are available here.

Resources Outside RIT Libraries

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."
Alliance Graphique Internationale
Over 3,000 digital images of members of the international graphic design alliance. Includes current examples.
Design Museum (London)
The world’s leading design museum and European Museum of the Year 2018
Red Dot Museum (Singapore)
Red Dot Design Museum is the physical embodiment of the international Red Dot Design Award.
Vitra Design Museum (Germany) Collection
he Vitra Design Museum is one of the leading design museums worldwide. It researches and conveys the history and present of design and relates it to architecture, art and everyday culture