Industrial design
Find
Databases
- Art and Architecture Complete on EBSCOhost
- Art Full Text on EBSCOhost
- ACM Digital library (Association for Computing Machinery)
Abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings since 1985. - Australian Standards Complete collection of Australian standards. Includes a small number of selected ISO standards.
- Design and Applied Arts Index (Proquest) Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.
- Ecospecifier Ecospecifier is a knowledge base of over 1000 environmentally preferable products, materials and resources.
- IBISWorld Industry Market Research Reports
- IEEE Explore provides access the the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) dating back to 1913 for some publications.
- Material Connexion Knowledge base for information about new and innovative materials intended for design development: product, packaging, architectural, interior, apparel and more.
- Science Direct
- Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place.
- Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Coverage is available from 1982 onwards.
Journals
- Abitare
- Core77 Articles on design industry and education by students and practitioners
- Design Issues
- Design Management Journal
- Design News
- Domus
- Journal of Urban Design
- Metropolis
- Product design and development
Ebooks
- The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds Different Understandings of Design.
- Design Research through Practice From the Lab, Field, and Showroom.
- Exploring materials creative design for everyday objects
- Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design Methods
- Integrated Product and Process Design and Development The Product Realization Process.
- Materials and design the art and science of material selection in product design
- Materials enabled designs the materials engineering perspective to product design and manufacturing
Websites
Podcasts and Video
- By Design Architecture and design from ABC's Radio National
- Powerhouse Museum
Galleries and Museums
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Danish Design Centre
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Industrial Design Centre Bombay
- Museum Victoria
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney the major Australian public museum. Exhibitions, programs and research span the fileds of science, technology, industry, design and decorative arts.
- Vitra Design Museum
Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks
- IP Australia - the agency that grants rights in patents, trade marks, and designs.
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Danish Patent Office
- European Patent Office
- Finnish Design Rights
- German Patent Office
- Google Patents searches USPTO database from 1790's to last few months - doesn't cover patent applications or foreign patents or recently issued patents.
- Micropatent - Thomson Reuters
- Norwegian Patent Office
- Swedish Patent and Registration Office
- Thompson Compumark
- United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
- United States of America Patent and Trademark Office
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- For more information about Patents, see the Patents Subject Starter Guide.
Institutions
- Swedish Industrial Design Foundation
- Coroflot design jobs and free portfolios
- IDSA the voice of industrial design in the United States
Product Suppliers
- Material Connexion Knowledge base for information about new and innovative materials intended for design development: product, packaging, architectural, interior, apparel and more.
- Carpet Institute of Australia
- Fiberglass World
- Leather - BDM Leather and Canvas
- Illuminating Engineering Society The Lighting Society
- Metals - Die Casting
- Plastics
- Plastics Today
Help
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