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Design History

Welcome to the UCLA Library guide for research on design history. This guide is intended as a starting place for researchers, pointing to tools for finding books, scholarly articles, images, and other topical information.

Individual Designers

In the UCLA Library Catalog, works by and about individual designers can be found in various ways.

The most comprehensive search can be done using the designer's name in the keyword search box. The most effective way to do this is to use quotation marks to search the name as a phrase, eg. "Saul Bass". This search will find books about Saul Bass, but will also expand to include chapters of books where he is mentioned.

A narrower search can be done by subject, eg. Bass, Saul.

Searching the Library Catalog by Subject