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Subject Guides
Digital Arts & Design Resources
 
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Selected Books in the Library
The Library's online catalog is available by following the link to our catalog.  To locate digital arts or design related resources within the Library, try subject or title searches with the following terms:
  • 3D
  • Animation
  • Art
  • Graphic
  • Web site
A few of the books in the Library's collection that relate to digital arts and design are listed below.
  • Creative Advertising
    (HF5823 .P75 2002)
  • Database-Driven Web Sites
    (QA76.9 .D3 M67 2000)
  • A History of Graphic Design
    (REF Z246 .M43 1998)
  • Macromedia Flash MX: Hands-On Training
    (TR897.7 .W45 2003)
  • Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture
    (NB623 .B9 W35 1998)
  • Principles of Web Design
    (TK5105.888 .S55 2003)
  • Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games
    (TR897.7 .M46 2000)
  • Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation
    (NC975 .C35 2001)
  • The World of Edward Gorey
    (NX512 .G67 R67 1996)
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Locating Articles in the Library
Online Databases

Don't forget to go to the many online databases, which provide access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Some of these articles are provided in full-text, but others are not. The databases also act as a cumulative index to many of the journals/magazines available in the Library. COLLEGE ACCESS ONLY

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Resources on the Web
  • Animation World Network
    News and information from around the industry can be found at this useful site, along with career information.  Search for a job, post your résumé, or look for businesses within the industry.

  • Argon Zark!
    This is a full-length virtual comic book which mixes traditional drawing with computer graphics, and uses interactivity and animation; a very interesting example.

  • Art History Resources on the Web
    Another subject guide, this page is created and maintained by a professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, VA.

  • Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
    An online, interactive version of Pegie Stark Adam's book by the same title, this site uses exercises, graphic design samples, and malleable illustrations of art masterpieces to explain color theory and the emotional and physical impacts that color, proportion, and contrast have upon a viewer.
    Requires Macromedia Flash player.

  • Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques
    This site provides some of the text of a book surveying computational approaches for producing computer animation.  The author is an associate professor in the department of computer and information science at The Ohio State University.

  • Digital Archive of Art
    This archive is a collection of images of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries.  Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraunt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and others.  The site is created and maintained by a professor in the Fine Arts Department at Boston College.

  • ExCalendar.net ~link may be broken~
    A calendar of exhibitions at the world's leading art museums (members of the Art Museum Network).  The calendar is searchable by artist's name, exhibition title, city, keyword or museum name.

  • Grand Comics Database
    A searchable collection of over 50,000 comic books, including a great deal of cover art is available from this site created and maintained by a volunteer organization of hobbyists.

  • Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age
    In 1999, the Smithsonian Institution's National Design Museum sponsored an exhibition from the collection of Merrill C. Berman. The exhibition site includes history of graphic design and poster art, including avant-garde movements of Futurism, Dada, and Constructivism.

  • Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
    "Mother" is a subject guide developed by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

  • Portfolio Project
    The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton University Library has provided a collection of the most frequently requested items for reproduction, including images of European and American Graphic Arts and graphic Americana.

  • Smithsonian: Archives of American Art
    Although it includes a lot of good information and images, this is the site of the Smithsonian's physical Archives of American Art. Don't expect everything the Archive owns to be available for download, but you can get research help from the Archivists by e-mailing them reference questions, or requesting interlibrary loan of materials.

  • Virtual Library of Museums pages
    Published by Stanford University, this site is a directory of museums' Web sites.

  • Virtual Reference Collection: Art Resources
    This page provides a set of links compiled by the Library at Brown University in Providence, RI.

  • Web Developer's Virtual Library
    An excellent collection of web site development resources, the site covers authoring, design, graphics, and the Internet. There are also beginner and intermediate guides and tutorials on HTML, DHTML, VRML, XML, cascading style sheets, web programming scripting (Java JavaScript, CGI, Perl), graphics (Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc.), and UNIX and databases for the Web.

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