California Design and Designers Resources
- Calisphere This link opens in a new windowOver one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more from the collections digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state.
- Los Angeles Public Library Photo CollectionMore than 60,000 images from the Los Angeles Central Library History Department's Photo Collection are available online. Images have been selected to represent the history of the growth of Los Angeles and California, Southern California life, and frequently requested subjects such as major events.
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Full text (no ads or pictures) from 1985 to the present. For access to older issues, see Proquest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times [1881-2015]. - Online Archive of California (OAC) This link opens in a new windowFinding aids for primary source collections in all UC campuses and other contributing institutions, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California.
- A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los AngelesThe A+D Museum explores the definitions of architecture and design, from the conceptual to professional practice. It embraces the themes of technology, art, scale, and urbanism. A+D guides the community through the complex effects design has on our lives and the world around us.
- Art in UCLA Library Special CollectionsUCLA Library Special Collections has built in-depth collections that reflect trends in arts and architecture in the Los Angeles region, especially as the metropolitan area grew during the Modernist movement. The current emphasis is on the late 1960s to the present, a period of vital political and artistic change in L.A. art galleries, museums, and art education.
- Center for the Study of Political GraphicsThis educational research archive contains more than 90,000 protest graphics, from the 19th Century to the present—including the largest collection of post-World War II posters in the United States.
- Design Museum, University of California, DavisEnhancing the teaching and research activities of the UC Davis Department of Design, the Design Museum explores how design shapes, improves and makes viable the objects, technology and environments we use, inhabit and experience every day.
- Environmental Design Archives, University of California, BerkeleyThe Environmental Design Archives holds nearly 100 collections documenting the built and landscaped environment. These records span a century, 1890-1990, and contain primary source materials such as correspondence, reports, specifications, drawings, photographs, and artifacts. Though the archives' primary focus is the San Francisco Bay Area, designers and projects from throughout California, the United States, and the world are found in the collections.
- Letterform ArchiveLetterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in graphic design. Located in San Francisco. There is also an online archive.
Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986 by Call Number: Arts Library NC998.5.C2 E27 2015ISBN: 9781938922619Date: 2014Edited and designed by graphic designer Louise Sandhaus, this raucous gathering of smart, offbeat, groundbreaking graphic design from the "Left Coast" will amaze readers with its breadth and richness. The fruit of more than a decade of research, this hardcover is arranged in four sections: "Sunbaked Modernism," "Industry and the Indies," "60s Alt 60s" and "California Girls."
The Furniture of Sam Maloof by Call Number: Arts Library Oversize* * NK2439.M28 A83 2001ISBN: 0393730859Date: 2001Sam Maloof was a consummate furniture designer and maker, recognized worldwide as a craftsperson's craftsman. This book examines Maloof's lifetime of production. Set in the context of the development of Southern California modernism and the contemporary American craft movement, this volume offers the first thorough look at Maloof's extraordinary life and work, providing insights into the materials and techniques of woodworking, as well as the artisan lifestyle.
Hot California Graphics by Call Number: Arts Library NC998.5.C2 H68 2000ISBN: 0942604768Date: 2000Bold and innovative, West Coast designers define what's new in this exciting new title on graphic style and design in California. The thirty-seven firms selected to appear in this 304-page, full-color volume provide a statement of purpose to accompany their designs. Through this statement, and by viewing their fresh, new solutions, readers will explore all aspects of the design experience. Some of the design firms in this volume are recognized giants in the field, some are hot new houses, all are top notch. In their designs, the firms exhibit the visionary spirit, bold excitement and bold sensuality of California.
Just Another Poster? by Call Number: Arts Library Oversize* * N6538.M4 J87 2001ISBN: 0942006712Date: 2002Just Another Poster? investigates the critical role posters and other graphic materials played in the Chicano struggle for self-determination in California, from the borderland of San Diego to the urban metropolis of San Francisco. This volume of essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators represents the first comprehensive study of the ways the poster, as a medium of expression largely relegated to the margins of art world display, distribution, and critical reception, has been a primary form of cultural expression within Chicano communities in California and across America.
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Call Number: Arts Library NC998.5.C22 L678 2023ISBN: 9780520390867Date: 2023Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States. Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization's influential role in US and global art histories.
Something from Nothing by Call Number: Arts Library NC999.4.G74 G74 2001ISBN: 9782880465476Date: 2002Something from Nothing explores digital design as pioneered by April Greiman. Greiman is internationally recognised as one of the world's most innovative and influential designers. Her bold, kinetic explorations of typography and imagery as objects in time and space are grounded in a brilliant fusion of technology and graphics. Written and designed by Greiman this fascinating book is an intimate insight into Greiman's design philosophies and the many projects she has executed.
