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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.

Selected Images

Flier for a Beastie Boys Concert

Flier for The Beastie Boys with Fishbone at the Hollywood Palladium, February 7, 1987

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Colorfully designed letter

Design For the Letter "B", circa 1893

Created by a student at the Cooper Union Art School. Collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Chair designed by Richard Riemerschmid

Side Chair Designed by Richard Riemerschmid, 1898-99

Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Poster for the United States Shipping Board Designed by William Dodge Stevens, 1918

Image features steelworkers bolting the hull of a ship together. Collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Yellow chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Peacock Side Chair Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1921-22

Collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Subjects: Art, Architecture & Design