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A universe of design and illustration available to you from your home! Explore these online resources for designers and illustrators compiled by the Glaser/SVA Archives.
Design and Illustration Archives
AIGA Design Archives
Includes more than 20,000 selections from AIGA's national juried design competitions dating back to 1924.Center for the Study of Political Graphics
CSPG's collection contains domestic and international political posters and prints relating to historical and contemporary social movements.Cornell University - Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers
Part of Cornell's expansive Hip Hop Collection on the origins of Hip Hop and its spread around the world.Cornell University - Punk Flyer Collection
More than 2000 punk flyers from two of Cornell's prominent collections of punk ephemera.D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University in St. Louis
Focusing on 20th century illustration, the collection includes artists' working materials and sketches as well as original artwork from books, magazines, and advertising.Herb Lubalin Study Center, The Cooper Union
Collection materials available online through Flickr, plus their online publications Flat File http://flatfile.lubalincenter.com/ and The Lubalin 100 http://lubalin100.com/Hoover Institution Poster Collection, Stanford University
Posters documenting the wartime viewpoints and diverse political sentiments of the twentieth century. Primarily composed of posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia/Soviet Union, and France, though posters from more than eighty countries are included.International Dada Archive, University of Iowa
Collection of documentation and scholarship relating to the Dada movement.John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History at Duke University Ad* Access
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.Letterform Archive
Collection of thousands of items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives
SVA's very own design archives. See also our Instagram for gems from our collections https://www.instagram.com/glaserarchives/The New School Archives
Images, text, audio, and video from The New School Archives & Special Collections,Olivetti Archive Poster Collection
Posters from the Italian typewriter and computer company, known for the quality of design of both its products and promotion.Outdoor Recreation Archive
A digital collection of outdoor recreation catalogs and magazines, part of the Outdoor Recreation Archive, which documents the history of outdoor gear. From Utah State University and the College of Agriculture and Applied Science's Outdoor Product Design and Development. The complete Archive is described here: https://libguides.usu.edu/outdoorrecreationarchive.The People's Graphic Design Archive
A virtual, crowd-sourced graphic design archive.Posteritati
A commercial film poster gallery with a huge online database of film posters dating from the early 1900s to the present day.SVA COVID Collection
Database of the SVA community's artistic response to COVID-19.Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology
Artifacts from the Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers at the Vignelli Center for Design Studies.West Michigan Graphic Design Archives
Archives devoted to the rich legacy of graphic design, paper manufacturing, and printing in West Michigan.The Wolfsonian, Florida International University
Collection focused on North American and European art, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design dating from 1850 to 1950.
Audio Resources
- Design Lecture SeriesWide-ranging design lectures organized by Civilization studio in Seattle.
- Design MattersDebbie Millman's long-running podcast interviews with designers, writers, artists, and curators.
- Revision PathMaurice Cherry's weekly showcase of Black designers, developers, and digital creatives.
- Scratching the SurfacePodcast about design, theory, and creative practice hosted by Jarrett Fuller.
Museums
Cirulli Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Collection focused on the art and history of twentieth-century Italy.Cooper Hewitt
Cooper Hewitt's collection spans thirty centuries of historic and contemporary design.Denver Art Museum
Selections from the museum's architecture and design collection.Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
Most of MAD's collection of craft, art, and design is available through their digital collections database.Museum of Design, Zurich
The largest Swiss online database for design and art, containing more than 150,000 objects.Museum of Modern Art
Many selections from their design collection are available through their online database.National Museum of African American History and Culture
Posters from the museum's vast collection.Poster House
Exhibition selections from the first museum in the US devoted solely to posters. See also Poster House's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/posterhousenyc/
Miscellaneous Image Resources
Public Domain Image Archive
A collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. New images are added every week.
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Independent Online Resources
50 Watts
A vast assortment of book-related design and illustration.archives.design
A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available through the Internet ArchivesAvant Garde
Every issue of Herb Lubalin and Ralph Ginburg's magazine Avant Garde.Black Beauty Archives
Beauty and hair ads, magazines, and pageant memorabilia documenting the history of Black beauty.Black Self-Empowerment - Merrill C. Berman Collection
Political works by Black artists and activists. A smaller selection was included in the online exhibition "Black Self-Empowerment: From The Crisis to the Black Panthers, 1920s-1990s" -
https://mcbcollection.com/black-self-empowermentCOVID-19 Street Art
Crowd-sourced database from the Urban Art Mapping Research Project.Digital Transgender Archive
An international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections, DTA is a hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings related to trans history.Eros
Every issue of Herb Lubalin and Ralph Ginzburg's landmark magazines Eros.Esquire Archives
Digitized pages from Esquire magazine dating back to its founding in 1933.Fact
Every issue of of Herb Lubalin and Ralph Ginzburg's magazine Fact.Fonts in Use
An independent archive of typograpy.George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art
Crowd-sourced database from the Urban Art Mapping Research Project.India Street Lettering
Site dedicated to documenting India's street signs, from Pooja Saxena,.The Native Graphic Design Project
Resource to study the work of Native, Native American, First Nations, American Indian, AmerIndian, Aboriginal, Metís, Native Alaskan, Indigenous, Indígina, and Inuit people working in the field of graphic designOpen Culture
Free cultural and educational media on the web.Peculiar Manicule
Site devoted to graphics from the 1960s and 1970s.Der Sturm
366 fully digitized issues of Der Sturm (The Storm), the German avant-garde magazine, 1910-1932.Rene Wanner’s Poster Site
Site from prolific poster collector and historian Rene Wanner.