LibGuides: AR 346: History of Graphic Design: Websites

Archives Websites

AIGA Design Archives More than 20,000 communication design selections dating back to 1924.
Behance Web platform for creative professionals to upload their work and portfolios.
Clio Awards Collection of the works celebrated in the premier international awards competition for the creative business.
Cooper Hewitt The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design, and the steward of one of the most diverse and comprehensive design collections in existence—more than 215,000 design objects spanning 30 centuries.
Internet Archive - Graphic Design Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
People's Graphic Design Archive Crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history, including everything from finished projects to process, photos, correspondence, oral histories, anecdotes, articles, essays, and other supporting materials.
Urban Collective Between 2002-2007, Urban Collective was the biggest graphic design submission website on the internet.

Use museum and gallery sites for images, articles, and cultural information.

Creative Nerds
Writing About Art This website includes discussions of approaches to writing about, including visual, stylistic, and historical analyses, as well as examples of bibliographies and research papers.

Finding what you need on comprehensive websites can be time-consuming. Look for sitemap to locate specific materials, or use this handy trick:

This technique will yield search results for your keyword(s) only within the website URL.

Narrowing your results:

You can search by specific domains. For example, if you only want government jobs sites, you can search "jobs" + "site:.gov" .

You can also also search for specific file types. For example, to search for a PDF document on jobs, search "jobs" + filetype:PDF.