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Industrial design
Finding Journal Articles
Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :
- Art Full Text references and full text articles from journal articles, yearbooks and museum bulletins. Its focus is on painting, sculpture, drawing and architecture - the "fine arts".
- Anatomy
- ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries.
- Australian Designs
- Finnish Designs
- Hague Express Database
- UK Design Databases
- Design and Applied Arts Index An international index to current design and applied artts journals. Covers well the areas of industrial design, graphic design, typography and packaging.
- Design Special Collection is an index to a special collection of magazines and books housed at the Prahran Campus, consisting of mainly historical material covering the first half of the twentieth century. Many architectural and interior design journals are included in the index.
- Standards Online A full set of Australian standards
- Material Connexion Knowledge base for information about new and innovative materials intended for design development: product, packaging, architectural, interior, apparel and more.
- IP Australia - the agency that grants rights in patents, trade marks, and designs.
Browse Online Journals
- Abitare on line
- Art Deadlines List a monthly newsletter listing art contests, scholarships, competitions etc.
- Blueprint
- Core Articles on design industry and education by students and practitioners
- Domus
- Emigre - an important graphic design magazine. Includes an artist index and bibliography
- Metropolis
Companies
- Abitare Center for furniture
- Fitch, Inc an international design firm specializing in research based product design and development.
- RGA International - offers marketing, advertising and industrial design services
- Robert Q. Riley Enterprises - plans for electric and hybrid cars and other vehicles
- Pendragon Industrial Design product design and development
- Innovative Design and Manufacturing - product design development and manufacturing
- Fuseproject- brand development and industrial design
- Aegis Group product and software development
Institutions
- Swedish Industrial Design Foundation
- Fider Foundation for Interior Design Education Researchl
- Coroflot design jobs and free portfolios
- Danish Design Centre a superior body
- DIA Center for the Arts
- Bio Thinking: Greener by Design resources and ideas for sustainable products
- IDSA the voice of industrial design in the United States
- Modern/Postmodern An online magazine featuring Australian design of the twentieth century such as Walter Burley Griffin and Grant Featherston
Podcasts
- Podcast- A green Conversation on advanced vehicle technology
Galleries and Museums
- Antiques and Arts Australia
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- National Museum New Delhi
- Industrial Design Centre Bombay
- National Gallery of Victoria a significant gallery of the southern hemisphere
- National Museum of Australia
- Vitra Design Museum
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney the major Australian public museum. Exhibitions, programs and research span the fileds of science, technology, industry, design and decorative arts.
- The National Library of Australia Pictures Australia is an online gallery of more than 13,500 indexed
images. - State Library of New South Wales Online Collections
- ADAM an art and architecture gateway which is a catalogue of 2600 internet resources
Industrial Property Offices
- Australian Industrial Property Office
- Danish Patent Office
- German Patent Office
- Norwegian Patent Office
- Swedish Patent Office
- United Kingdom Patent Office
- United States of America Patent and Trademark Office
- World Intellectual Property Organization
Copyright free Images - Stock Art
- Animation Factory Over 3000 original free animated GIFs.
- Art Today Clipart, Photographs, Fonts, Webart etc.
- Corbis Discover the perfect image now
- Hulton
- Picture Australia
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Cyberphoto A very wide selection indeed
- Gimp This photoarchive by Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 15,000 free photos
- Skdesigns Many music images are available here.
- Tripodasia Many images, thousands royalty-free of Asia and Asians.
Product Suppliers
- Woolmark
- Carpet Institute of Australia
- Fiberglass World
- Leather - BDM Leather and Canvas
- Lighting - Light Fittings
- Illuminating Engineering Society The Lighting Society
- Metals - Die Casting
- Plastics
- Plastics Today
- Recycling Steel
- Brentwood Recycling
Trademark Databases
- American and Canadian Federal Trademark Search
- Australian trademark databases
- Canadian Trade-marks Database
- French Trademark database
- United Kingdom trademark database
- Thomson&Thomson
- All About Trademarks
- MicroPatent Trademark Web
- Markenblatt Deutches Trademark databases
Patents
European
Germany
Sweden
United Kingdom
USA
- Biotechnology and Us Patents
- Chemical Patents Plus
- IBM Intellectual Property Network
- Micropatent Patent Web
- QPAT
- U.S. Patents
Author:Gordon H. Turnbull Design Librarian (gturnbull@swin.edu.au)
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