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 HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN (ARH 4724 )
LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books and articles on topics dealing with graphic design and graphic arts.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• Subject searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu and select "Subjects, All."  Type in the following Library of Congress subject headings (type in dashes for subheadings):

Graphic design

Graphic arts--History

• Keyword searching:  Go to the "Advanced Search" screen and type in your keywords using "Title Keyword(s)." (Example:  graphic design and visual communication)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Indexes/Databases" under the heading "Quick Links." When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the link for the "EZproxy" server.

• Art Index Full Text
  Provides access to articles on topics dealing with graphic design, graphic arts and other subject areas.  Coverage is from 1984 to the present, with full text articles beginning in 1997.
   

• Art Index Retrospective
  This is a good resource for references to articles in older publications from 1929 through 1984.  Subjects indexed include graphic design, graphic arts  and others. 

• ARTstor  Contains 8,000 digital images, from the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 
   

• Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
  Indexes articles from design and applied arts publications.  Some of the subject areas covered include graphic design, architecture, computer aided design, industrial design, garden design and landscape architecture.
   

• Groveart  This database is a wonderful starting point for gathering information about the history of graphic design and its various periods and for finding biographical information about graphic designers.

• JSTOR This is a collection of full text articles that includes several journals dealing with art history and design.  Articles can be located by keyword searching or browsing contents of journals.
   

• NYPL Digital Gallery  Provides access to the NYPL Digital Gallery, which is New York Public Library's "new image database." The collection of digital images includes drawings, posters, photographs and much more.

• Web of Science 
  This electronic database provides references to articles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index.  It is a very unique database, since cited references are provided along with the references to articles.
   

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF LB2369 .G53 2003  Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2003.

• MLA Style Electronic Formats (by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey)
  This "quick" guide to citing sources found on the Internet provides the important components of a citation, with examples.

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