Subject and Course Guides: Design: Images and Videos

Image Databases - Library

These image databases are made available to the UIC community via the University Library and affiliated organizations.

Artstor
Over 2.5 million high-definition arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences images, rights-cleared for educational use, from a wide variety of contributors around the world.
Oxford Art Online
Over 6,000 searchable images from institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries.
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Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Dictionary of Art Online)
Bridgeman Art Library
The Bridgeman Archive contains about 67,000 images from museum, art gallery and artist collections throughout the world, all copyright cleared for educational use. Includes design, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artifacts and more. (Access through Credo Reference).
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Guide with tips to improve your image searches:
https://www.bridgemaneducation.com/documents/how-to-guide.pdf
Saskia Art Images (CARLI)
30,000 images shot on-site at major European museums and archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt, corresponding to subjects frequently covered in art history textbooks.
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NOTE: Get off-campus access via AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to Cisco AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group.

Design Image Collections

These design image collections are freely accessible. More image sites are linked on the Design collections in museums and archives tab on this guide.

Artsy
One of the largest online collections of contemporary art. A growing collection of over 100,000 artworks by 18,000+ artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions.
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Downloadable images may be used free of charge without restriction, including for commercial use, subject to any applicable laws and third party rights or conditions. See https://artsy.net/terms
Letterform Archive
Numerous graphic design and typography images. Includes a full run of Emigre magazine (click on "The Emigre Collection").
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Though freely accessible, these images are under copyright .
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt
Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
VADS
Access to 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections across the UK, for non-commercial educational use. Managed by the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).
Google Arts & Culture
Artworks by more than 6,000 artists, with more than 45,000 objects viewable in ultra high resolution.
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Google Arts & Culture images may be used for class projects. Check the site's Education link for ideas. You cannot print the images, only the educational material provided.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Discovery tool for public domain and openly available content held by archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in the United States.
Charles Harrison Design Collection
Collection of images from UIC Library Special Collections, featuring the product designs of Charles "Chuck" Harrison, the first African-American executive to work at Sears, as well as examples of the work of some of his contemporaries.
Internet Archive Book Images - Flickr
Freely available collection of over 5 million images from books scanned by the Internet Archive. The images range in date from 1500 to around 1923.

Videos and Podcasts

Revision Path
Award-winning showcase featuring weekly interviews with Black graphic designers, web developers, and digital creatives.
National Gallery of Art Video Collection
Links to numerous videos about artists in the National Gallery's collections, and exhibitions at the Gallery.

Art and Architecture in Video
Art and Architecture in Video delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media. Includes captions and transcripts.

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Design

Image Databases - Library

Design Image Collections

Videos and Podcasts

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana