A selection of books published in the Netherlands in the last year which distinguish themselves by the quality of their design, typography, printing, illustration and production.

Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the BOOK as ART. As the oldest nonprofit dedicated to uplifting the book arts & book art, the CBA support the field through education, preservation, exhibitions, studio access, and community building.

This gallery at MassArt represents some of the over 300 artists’ books housed at the MassArt Library.

Since 2003, the Chicago Design Archive has been the premiere and permanent online record featuring Chicago-related experiential design, graphic design, and product design created from the 1920s to the present. It is a collection of historically important design as well as a living, growing record of the vibrant Chicago design scene.

Design Atlas is an educational tool for teachers, students and designers. They aim to promote discussion and further understanding of basic type and graphic design principles.

An in-progress and ever expanding archive of design work collected by designer and art director Emma Bers.

Design Reviewed is the personal project of Matt Lamont dedicated to digitally preserving graphic design history and documenting the vast visual culture from the last century.

Tumblr page dedicated to archiving print ephemera, products, and fashion of the early 2000s.

The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge.” It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/ videos, moving images, and millions of books.

The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to expand, diversify, and preserve graphic design history. It includes finished projects, process, correspondence, oral histories, articles, and other material in the form of images, documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.

The Public Domain Review’s focus is on works now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Their aim is to promote and celebrate the public domain in all its abundance and diversity, and help our readers explore its rich terrain – like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance to an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond.

Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.

Philip Baxter Meggs was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is often claimed to be a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design. It’s great, but also has many blind spots (see the People’s Design Archive for a more expansive look at design history).

The Collection stems from the attendance of the Bonotto house by the Fluxus, Concrete, Visual, Sound, Performative and Electronic Poetry’s artists hosted since the early Seventies in Molvena. Here, the artists met each others, they planned and created works that constitutes the first core of the Collection.

Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts. Most everything on the site is pilfered, ripped, and swiped from other places, then reposted.

The CalArts Poster Archive was initiated in 1995 when faculty members Shelley Stepp and Kary Arimoto-Mercer began collecting posters from the CalArts hallways in order to preserve the designs. In Fall 2016 faculty member Michael Worthington took on the task of photographing and making public the archive in a digital and printed form. A dedicated group of student assistants photographed the posters, creating a digital catalogue, and designed this website to house the images.

The Swiss Poster Collection is a critical selection of posters dating from 1970 to 2011. It was established by Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Ruegg and Professor Daniel Boyarski in 1985 as a teaching collection.

The Cornell Hip Hop Collection features more than 1,000 party and event flyers ca. 1976 - 1984, the largest known institutional collection of these scarce and important flyers, which have become increasingly valued for the details they provide about early Hip Hop culture.

This digital collection offers 2,091 images of punk flyers held by Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Posters and print ephemera from the from the Country Music Hall of Fame archive, good resource for posters that use American wood type.

The Political Buttons at HKS Collection features nearly 3,000 buttons that represent U.S. political history from 1904 through today. It includes buttons on candidates, ballot initiatives, social issues, grassroots movements, and more.

Typo/graphic posters is a platform on behalf of design through the poster medium. It focus exclusively on typographical and graphical posters, those that challenge type, colors and shapes to express its message.

Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.

The Black Panther was the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. It began as a four-page newsletter in Oakland, California, in 1967, and was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was designed by Emory Douglas who held titles of Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture, overseeing all aspects of the BPP visual identity.

Documenta is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time.

Emigre was a quarterly magazine published from 1984 until 2005 in Berkeley, California, dedicated to visual communication, graphic design, typography, and design criticism. Produced by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, Emigre was known for creating some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs. Make sure to click through to the Letterfrom Archive to see high resolution images of each page.

The Queer Zine Archive Project is a Milwaukee-based community archive dedicated to preserving queer zines and queer zine culture. Part of the archive’s mission is to make the collection accessible through digitizing these zines and making them publicly accessible in an online format.

Visible Language is the oldest peer-reviewed design journal. It advocates the teaching, research, and practice of visual communication design to enhance the human experience. Published by the Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, Visible Language balances artfulness with science, innovation with respect for human patterns of use, evidence-based research with intuitive exploration, and technology with humanity.

Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. Supported by examples contributed by the public, they document and examine graphic design with the goal of improving typographic literacy and appreciation.

The Archive was founded by Rob Saunders, a collector of the letter arts for over 40 years, as a place to share his private collection with the public. We opened to visitors in February 2015 and now offer hands-on access to a curated collection of over 100,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.

TYPEROOM is an online platform for the Typophile Generation. Showcasing outstanding typographic works, featuring inspiring stories about the letterforms that matter, premiering breaking news and interviewing type designers from around the globe, TYPEROOM is a curated portfolio for the discerning typophile.

A collection of websites built by using or modifying Cargo Collective’s templates (LUC VisCom students have access to Cargo Collective for free while they are students, ask a faculty member for the annual code).

Site of Sites carefully curates a collection of exceptional digital experiences. Our criteria for selection is based on professional design and content, interesting behaviors, edgy and innovative design, exceptional UI/UX, and new technology.