Featured Resources for School of Design
ARTstor Digital Library
It provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance Studies.
Britannica ImageQuest
ImageQuest is a collection of nearly 3 million images from more than 50 collections in the world, e.g., the Bridgeman Art Gallery, Dorling Kindersley Images, Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, the National Geographic Society, and other leading names.Coloribus
It is an advertising archive with over 2,000,000 pieces of entry from all over the world. The database contains information about brands, agencies, people involved and awards entries which could be retrieved via the full-text search engine. You may access the database within the campus, and personal account user registration is required.
The Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
Media Resources
Design & thinking
[NK1510 .D4742 DVD]
"Design & Thinking is a documentary exploring the idea of "design thinking"! How do we fully engage organizations to think about the changing landscape of business, culture and society? Inspired by design thinking, this documentary grabs businessman, designers, social change-makers and individuals to portrait what they have in common when facing this ambiguous 21st century. What is design thinking? How is it applied in business models? How are people changing the world with their own creative minds? It is a call to the conventional minds to change and collaborate"--designthinkingmovie.com
Design all about color
[NK1510 .D47436 DVD]
"Color has the ability to create emotion and influence our moods. Color is a powerful tool in interior design and fashion. Interior designer Brandi Hagen discusses: 1) History of color and the development of color theories; 2) The color system: hue, value, and chroma; 3) Color wheel; 4) Warm & cool colors; 5) Color schemes"--from this DVD container.
New Additions & Trial Databases
China and the World Ancient and Modern Silk Road
[Expiry: 31 Dec 2018]It is a new journal published by World Scientific Publishing Company.
Gale Business Collection
[Expiry: 31 Dec 2018]It is a business resource mainly for undergraduates which covering business and trade publications in the areas of accounting, economics, finance, marketing and management with a selection of international, US and regional news publications.
Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine
[Expiry: 31 Dec 2018]It is a new journal published by World Scientific Publishing Company.
超星期刊
[Expiry: 31 Dec 2018]超星期刊目前有國内期刊6,500種, 其中有1,300多種核心期刊, 涵蓋内容包括理學、工學、農學、社會科學、文化、教育、哲學、醫學、經濟、管理等各學科。