The National College
The Visual Resources Centre at NCAD
Art and Design on the Web
The following is a list of links for open access sources of digital images and information on art and design history on the web. We welcome suggestions on other useful links to art and design websites. Please email us at slidelibrary@ncad.ie. We are also available for guidance on researching art/design topics on the web.
- General Web Portals
- Academic Websites
- Museums
- Fine Art, Art History, Film & Media
- Design, History of Design, Social History
General Web Portals to Visual Art Resources / Information on Digital Images
- AHDS Performing Arts Collections
- AHDS Visual Arts
- Anthony McCann’s Art and Visual Culture Resources
- Artcyclopedia
- ART-Guide, Collection of Art History Websites
- Intute: Art and Design
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- Mark Harden’s Artchive
- TASI – Technical Advisory Service for Images
- Virtual Library Museums Pages
Academic Websites
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Art, Design and Visual Thinking
- Art History Resources, Arizona State University
- Art Images for College Teaching
- ArtServe Australian National University
- Chartres: Cathedral of Notre Dame Image Collection, University of Pittsburgh
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- J-E. Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures
- Trinity College Library’s Useful Links for History of Art
- World Images, California State University
Museums
- British Museum, London
- Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design, Berlin
- Cartoon Museum, London
- Courtauld Institute, London
- Design Museum, London
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston
- Getty Centre, Los Angeles
- Guggenheim Museums
- The Louvre Museum, Paris
- Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Metropolitan Museum, New York
- Museé d’Orsay, Paris
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- National Gallery, London
- National Portrait Gallery, London
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- Smithsonian Institution’s “Galaxy of Images”
- Tate Gallery, Britain
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Weaving Art Museum, California
Fine Art, Art History, Film & Media
- African Painters
- Aliennation [Performing Arts]
- Ars Electronica: A Festival for Art, Technology and Society
- Artificial Gallery
- Artists’ Books Collection, University of Wisconsin
- Artists Space, SoHo
- ArtLex: Dictionary of Art Terms
- Asia Art Archive
- Marc Behrens
- Sophie Calle
- Eddie Chambers
- Colorasm: Project about the commodification of open digital content
- Creative Space: Robert Blackburn
- David Cunningham’s Activated Space
- Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian [Photographs]
- Dispatx Art Collective
- Documenta 12
- Marcel Duchamp
- Floodwall [Hurricane Katrina Piece]
- Horst
- Nan Goldin, Pompidou Centre
- Howard Hodgkin
- International Istanbul Biennial
- The Italian Futurist Book
- Mikhail Karikis
- Oleg Kulik [Performance Artist]
- Gerald Laing
- Richard Long
- Luxonline [British Video Artists]
- Jordan McKenzie
- Metronome Press
- Tony Oursler’s Timestream
- Nam Jun Paik
- Painters NYC
- Photomuse
- Satyajit Ray
- Realist Prints and Drawings from the Goldstein Collection, Library of Congress, U.S.A.
- Sean Scully, Metropolitan Exhibition
- The Soane Hogarths
- Stanza: Performance Artist Steve Tanza
- Surreal Things, V&A
- Turner Prize History, Tate Britain
- UBUWEB – Visual and Sound Poetry
- Edwin Van der Heide
- Web Gallery of Art
- Whitney biennial 2006
- Women Artists in North America
Design, History of Design and Social History
- 100% Design
- Joseph Abboud [Fashion Designer]
- ACM SIGGRAPH - Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
- All about Shoes
- Hardy Amies
- Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
- Architecture Page
- Armand Basi
- The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger
- Berlutti Bootmakers
- William Blake: Illustrations for The Book of Job
- Oswald Boateng Fashion
- Booktrusted: Illustrators
- British Library’s Online Gallery
- Car Design Online
- Roberto Cavalli
- Thomas Chippendale’s “Gentleman and Cabinet maker’s Director…”
- Classic Cafes
- Luigi Colani [Industrial Designer]
- Constructing Europe: Transport
- Core 77 - Industrial Design Supersite
- Creative Futures [Visual Communication Awards]
- CSeARCH: the cultural studies e-archive
- Design Addict
- Design Observer
- Designing Britain 1945-1975
- Dexigner
- D-Side [Designers]
- Tom Dixon
- Dolce vita Design
- Domestic Interiors Database
- Fashionweb
- The Festival of Britain, Museum of London
- Finnish Design
- From Russia with Love: Costumes for the Ballets Russes 1909-1933
- FWA [Favourite Website Awards]
- Harpers Weekly Magazine 1857-1912
- Colette Hazelwood [Jewellery Designer]
- Head Over Heels
- Hillman Curtis Design Company
- The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition, Paris 1867
- Indonesian Textiles, National Gallery of Australia
- Infomat: Fashion Industry Information Services
- Information Inspiration Ecodesign Resource
- Informe Design
- Marc Jacobs
- Japanese Fashion in the 20th Century
- Japanese Street Fashion
- Owen Jones’ “Examples of Chinese Ornament…”
- Kaliber 10,000 – the Designers’ Lunchbox
- Kylie: The Costume Collection
- Lambretta Club of Great Britain
- Linkdup Design Web Portal
- Raymond Loewy
- London Buildings and Monuments Illustrated in the Victorian Web
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Nicole Miller
- Northwest Architectural Archives
- Modernism, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Modernism, V&A
- Keith Murray Ceramic and Glass
- George Nelson [Designer]
- Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
- Ohio University Vintage Print Advertising Archive
- Origin: The London Craft Fair
- Robin Paris [Batik Artist]
- Pasarela Cibeles [Spanish Fashion]
- Patent Room: The Art of Industrial Design
- The Poster War, Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Poster Art from WWII – National Archives, U.S.
- Posters of Conflict
- Posters American Style, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
- Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930 [University of Alabama]
- Oscar de la Renta
- Harriet Russell [Illustrator]
- Elie Saab Fashion
- Alexander Speltz – Styles of Ornament (1906)
- Suurland Blueprints
- Straw Knitting
- Symbols
- The Great Pattern Review
- The Textile Artist
- Thinking with type
- Tribu Design
- ULITA: University of Leeds International Textiles Archive
- Victorian Times
- The Victorian Web
- Vidimus [Online Medieval Stained Glass Journal]
- Vintage Pattern Lending Library
- The Visual Dictionary
- Web Pages that Suck
- World War II Posters
- Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent
