Design

The museum's Department of Architecture and Design features a collection of 250,000 objects grounded in works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier. The diverse holdings also include works by cutting-edge designers including Hella Jongerius, Konstantin Grcic, Stefan Sagmeister, and Joris Laarman.

Collection of more than 70,000 objects. Strengths include Italian design from the 1960s and 1970s, American graphic design from the 1950s to the present day, post-World War II furniture and product design in America and Western Europe, and contemporary Western European and Japanese design. Includes the AIGA Design Archives.

Links to current and past exhibition information, news, and blog.

Over 914,000 images, from illustrated manuscripts to Victorian board games, Kalighat paintings, and election posters.

Nearly 20,000 images of public domain artworks in the museum are available to download. Other images may be protected by copyright.

Includes over 406,000 public domain images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix without restriction. Select "Open Access" when searching.

Explore the museum's growing online collection of historic and contemporary design.

Links to finding aids for the numerous primary source design archives held in the Special Collections department at the Daley Library.

A selection of STA publications and other materials, especially exhibition catalogs.

Collection of drawings 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 work by some of his contemporaries.

Maintained by The Society of Typographic Arts, with the goal making accessible the best design work of those practicing in the Chicago area. Covers 1927 to the present; searchable by designer, firm, client and more.

Search the Design Materials collections of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), Parsons School of Design, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).