The University of British Columbia

Art + Architecture + Planning
UBC Library

• Exhibitions and Museums

• Organizations

• Resources

• Magazines

• Andy Warhol Museum One of the four Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• Design Museum London, England.

• IDE Virtual Design Museum Hosted by the Delft University of Technology. "Provides an archive of works and companies that exemplify the evolution of 20th century industrial design."

• National Design Museum The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, at the Smithsonian.

• MoDA Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, 1870-1960 (UK).

• Posters American Style An exhibition of the poster collection at the National Museum of American Art.

• Victoria and Albert Museum The "Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest and most influential museum of decorative arts in the world."

• Zurich Museum of Design "The Museum of Design Zurich is thus the only Swiss institution that constantly and systematically collects posters, graphic art and design objects as illustrations of 20th-century cultural production of both an everyday character and an artistically more ambitious nature".

• AOI - The Association of Illustrators Provides articles, an online magazine, news, and gallery.

• Design Research Society Offers publications, news, research links and information about this U.K. based international society. Members come from fields such as engineering, fine arts, psychology and computer science.

• ICSID - International Council of Societies of Industrial Design "...the site provides information about the ICSID global network, membership, current and future activities, a calendar of international design events, and more."

• The Textile Institute "A forum for informing the 7000 Textile Institute members and the world about textile activities. It is a worldwide professional association for people working with fibers and fabrics, clothing and footwear, interior and technical textiles."

• Art & design associations on the world wide web "provides links to over 560 associations whose members are interested in variety of visual arts, architecture, design, and allied fields."

• Art, Design and Visual Thinking "An interactive textbook" by Charlotte Jirousek, supporting a course at Cornell University. There are four components: the language of design; media of design and the fine arts; the evolution of visual language in the modern era; non-western approaches to art and design.

• Art and Design - Career and Employment Hosted by the Department of Art and Design, Northern Michigan University. Offers a long list of sites which host job postings in the art field, as well as information on career planning, art and entrepreneurship, professional organizations and exhibition information.

• Design Engine A great site for contemporary design news; features, news, who's doing what, goings on, new and notable...

• Design Library A metasite providing links to sites in the areas of industrial design, graphic design, interaction design, environmental design, and schools and organizations.

• International Directory of Design Search by country (ie. eastern Europe, sub-saharan Africa. Canada is listed in the Arctic and in "Anglo-America") or by subject (ie. acoustic and sound, games and toys, animation, etc.)

• Value-Created Review Furniture design resources for contemporary designers and manufacturers listed by category and country of origin.

• CA - Communication Arts Feature article, site of the week, resources, and a job page.

• Core77 - Design magazine and resource Two sections: Softcore - news, showcase, articles, inconspicuous consumption, contraption; Hardcore - firms, jobs, schools, links, calendar, sources, discussion, and how to.

• Design Canada "The online magazine for design professionals" featuring events calendar, features (spotlight on designers), and design index.

• Design Vox Design e-zine from France. Designers, news (exhibitions, publications, competitions), articles.

• DX: The Design Exchange Canadian site, with features, online journal, job listings, competitions, exhibitions, and more.

• I-D The online site of I.D. Magazine, "America's leading critical magazine covering the art, business and culture of design." The website version is a design competition showcase, presenting the winners of the Interactive Media Design Review and the Annual Design Review.

• Metropolis Online "Architecture, design, and a changing world ... committed to the examination of contemporary life through the various design disciplines (architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning and preservation)." The site offers events and exhibitions, conferences, the international contemporary furniture fair, and more. See especially the "Web Picks."