New Art & Design Research Guide Look!

Hello Art & Design Inforama fans! Just wanted to share with you that Alkek Library is moving our research guides over to a new software called LibGuides that looks much better. So take a look at the new and improved Art & Design Research Guide. And please, as always, if you have any suggestions of info to add to the Art & Design Research Guide or that you want to see on my blog, please let me know. I would be happy to make either of these resources more useful to you.

Happy New Year! ARTstor tips and tools!

Happy new year and welcome back! Lots to catch you up on!

ARTstor has a few new nifty tips and tools. They now have ARTstor mobile accessible from iPhones, iPads, or the iPod Touch. Features of the mobile version include searching images by keyword and viewing in list form with options of tapping to enlarge or rotate, or open info about the image. You can also view saved image groups but the coolest addition is the flashcard view which will let you see the image and then flip if over to see the info about it. You can use this like a flashcard to study for exams! See more about about ARTstor Mobile.

Another feature useful for exam prepping, is printing entire saved image groups. ARTstor will print saved image groups in list form with large thumbnails and the associated info for each image, making it easy to use as a study handout. You can also save this printable handout as a web page by saving as an HTML file from your browser. See it on ARTstor's news.

To see how to create an ARTstor account, save image groups, and do many other useful things as a Texas State student, faculty, or staff, see my other ARTstor posts on Art & Design Inforama or view my tutorial Creating URls and Power Points from ARTstor Image Groups.

If you would like me to give an ARTstor workshop, please email me, Tara, or leave a comment here. I am trying to gauge interest.

More new posts to come!

New Titles List

The link to the new titles list that is to the right under Alkek Library Art & Design Resources, now only includes new Art & Communication Design titles acquired by the library. So if you feel like browsing through the list of new titles, this list is an easy way to do it. It is updated once a week with new books ordered by me or Art & Design faculty.

New Database DesignInform!

We now have access to the database DesignInform. Covers art, design, and architecture of the late 19th to early 20th century. Consists of three main databases, all of which are projects to index and digitize backfiles of journals and annuals. Design Abstracts Retrospective will index over 70 journals and annuals published between 1900-1987. Design ProFILES contains profiles of nearly 20,000 artists, designers, craftspeople and architects active since c.1900. ReVIEW contains digitized backfiles of The Studio (London) 1893-1910, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (Darmstadt) 1897-1910, and Art et Décoration (Paris) 1897-1910 with more journals forthcoming.

Check it out!

Call for Entries: Photography, Prints, and Drawings

Photography:
There is a call for entries on the theme of Spherical from A. Smith Galleries. Carla Ellard, the Assistant Curator, Southwestern & Mexican Photography, at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos will be the juror for entries.

Prints and Drawing:
The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition is the second-longest running juried print and drawing competition in the country. Every two years it features the best contemporary graphic artwork from around the globe. All accepted artwork is featured in a full-color exhibition catalogue and on the exhibition’s website. DEADLINE for entry: November 20, 2010

Finding Currently Received Print Communication Design Periodicals in the Library

Here's how to find currently received Communication Design, Communication Art, Graphic Design, or Graphic Art magazines and journals in the library.

If you want to browse the paper or print journals, here is list of some Communication Design related journals and magazines in the library. The current issues, past 1-2 years, are shelved alphabetically by title on the 3rd floor. Some of these titles are available online. There will be a link in the catalog record to the online version.

The older issues up to 1980 are shelved by call number on the 3rd floor. Issues older than 1980 are shelved on the floor the call number is normally on.

• 100 Best Annual Reports
• 365: AIGA year in design
• Advertising Annual
• American Printer
  
• Art Directors Annual
• Baseline
• CMYK magazine
• Communication Arts
• Design and Applied Arts Index
• Design Annual
• Design Issues
  
• How
• Information Design Journal
• Inspiration
• Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
• Journal of Visual Culture
• The Quarterly Illustrator
• Rhizome.org : Connecting Art & Technology at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Typography
• Visual Communication
• Visual Communication Quarterly
• Word & image

New Art & Design Masters Thesis on eCommons@Texas State

Graduate Student Claudia Roeschmann’s master thesis, “Unbound: Investigational Book Design Projects and the Bauhaus Time Line" has been published in the Theses and Dissertations - Art & Design digital collection on eCommons@Texas State University.

Congratulations Claudia!