2023 Art and Design Communication subject guide

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Academic sources and reference

Our Browzine collection offers a great visual way to browse journals in your area, build your own bookcases, save links to articles, and explore special issues and articles in press. Here is a link to the journals categorised under Art and Design and Fine Arts

List of all online art journals and magazines
All our full-text art and design journal titles

Mintel
Market research, data and impacts. Useful for designers looking at audiences and trends
Proquest Central
The collection includes full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports.
Worcestershire County Council Eresources
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Reference and the Oxford English Dictionary. Log in by typing WOR and your whole student/ staff card number e.g. WOR12345678
Kanopy
Extensive collection of film and video resources, including independent cinema, documentaries and much more.

Historical books, newspapers and periodicals

19th Century UK Periodicals: Series 1 - New Readerships
Historic magazines, many illustrated
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Freeview TV and radio from 2001, plus the BBC Archive. Watch previously broadcast programmes and record future ones
Gale Primary Sources
Local, regional and national newspapers. Many of the later ones have illustrations, cartoons and photos
British Periodicals Collections I and II
17-20th century magazines. Many of the later ones have illustrations, cartoons and caricatures
Times Digital Archive
The Times newspaper from 1785-2019. Many later editions have photos and cartoons.
To log in type R + your student/staff card number (above the barcode on your card). You may need to add zeros after your student/staff number to make 9 characters in total, including the R. Access provided courtesy of The Hive partnership with Worcestershire County Council.

Art collections and museums

Art UK
Over 250,000 digitised artworks from galleries across the UK
British Library Images Online
Illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning almost 3,000 years. Fees may be payable
British Library on Flickr
Explore The British Library's 1023705 photos on Flickr
British Museum Images
Ceramics, sculpture, prints, drawings, and paintings
Europeana
Millions of artworks, artefacts, photos and illustrations from across Europe
Google Art Camera
Zoom in on over 100,000 in HD and see the details you may have missed
Google Arts and Culture
Google's museum and art work explorer
Local museums in England
Specialist collections of art, archaeology and history to inspire you
Museums in the UK
National collections of art, archaeology and history to inspire you
J Paul Getty Museum Collection
Thousands of images of artworks, photos etc. You can zoom in and see loads of detail

John Johnson Collection
Thousands of items offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the 18th-20th centuries. Includes 19th century entertainment, books, popular prints, crimes, murders and executions, and advertising

National Gallery
Online exhibitions and articles on Western European paintings from the 13-19th centuries
National Portrait Gallery image collection
50,000+ portraits and articles
New York Public Library digital collections
Prints, photos, maps, manuscripts, video, and more
Paul Mellon Centre Archive of British Art
Over 100,000 photographs of British paintings, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts
Smithsonian
The world's largest museum. Everything from art to zoology
Tate blog
Short articles on modern art: art, artists, media and movements
VADS: Visual Art Data Service
Over 140,000 images from over 300 arts and design collection in the UK

Design

a-n Artists' Network
News, reviews and insights in the visual arts
AIGA Design Archives
20,000 designs dating back to 1924
AIGA Eye on Design
News and features
BBC SFX archive
Thousands of BBC Sound Effects in WAV format
Design Blog
Design Council
News and articles from the design community
Design Museum online archive
Images and information about key designers
Design Observer
Design Week
Industry news
Digital Bodleian
Online exhibitions: everything from Tory party election posters to the Oxfam archive
Font Squirrel
Search engine for a large range of free fonts
Trend List
Visual trends
Unsplash
Good quality images freely available for non-commercial use
Visual Arts Data Service
Posters, arts and crafts, fashion, typography and graphic design

Illustration

Association of Illustrators (AOI)
'Champions illustrators and the illustration industry with education, promotion and campaigning to achieve a thriving industry for us all'
House of Illustration
The home of illustration in all its forms
illoz
Illustration portfolios
Illustration Art blog
Short articles on the history of illustration
Stripper's guide
Explorations in newspaper comics history
Illustration Archive
18-19th century book illustrations
Watercolour World
Watercolours pre 1900

Chapbooks and broadsides

English Broadside Ballad Archive
17th century broadside ballads and woodcuts
National Library for Scotland
Broadsides from the 16-19th century and 18-19th century Scottish chapbooks

Game art

80 level
An industry-leading platform for game developers, digital artists, animators, video game enthusiasts, CGI and VFX specialists
ArtStation Magazine
Art skills, careers and inspiration
GameDeveloper
News and articles on the art and business of making games
Games Artist
Connect with a community of game artists
GDC Vault
Over 20 years of talks from the Games Developers’ Conference

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2023 Art and Design Communication subject guide

Content

Art and Design Communication subject guide

Skills and techniques

Skills and techniques

Academic sources and reference

Academic sources and reference

Historical books, newspapers and periodicals

Historical books, newspapers and periodicals

Art collections and museums

Art collections and museums

Design

Design

Illustration

Illustration

Chapbooks and broadsides

Chapbooks and broadsides

Game art

Game art

Tom Mandall

Tom Mandall

Jo Dunn

Jo Dunn

Sarah Purcell

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