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Design Archives: Books and Publications

Details the design-related archival and primary sources at UIC.

Periodicals in Special Collections

Here are some periodical sources in Special Collections at UIC. Please keep in mind that because these are archival items we have collected over the years and the runs are not complete. You can search for more journals in our catalog. You can also search for missing isues on Worldcat.

Design Issues

Design E-books and Daley Library print books

Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition by Philip B. Meggs; Alston W. Purvis
Publication Date: 2011
Innovators and technologies that redefined graphic design, spanning the invention of writing, the origins of printing, to web, multimedia and interactive design. Over 1,400 high-quality images.
e-book
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design by Rachel Egenhoefer
Publication Date: 2017
e-book
Product Design by Milton, Alex, and Rodgers, Paul
Publication Date: 2011
e-book
The designer: half a century of change in image, training, and techniques by Rosemary Sassoon
Publication Date: 2008
e-book
(Also a print copy in Daley Library book stacks, 4th floor South. Call number NC590 .S27 2008)
Birth of the cool: California art, design, and culture at midcentury by Elizabeth Armstrong
Call Number: N6530.C2 A72 2007
ISBN: 3791338781
Daley Library Book Stacks, 4th floor South
The Culture of Design, 3rd edition by Guy Julier
Call Number: NK1510 .J855 2014
Daley Library Book Stacks, 4th floor South

Guide Author

Kellee E. Warren

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