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!

Large print indexes and catalogs up for grabs for projects!

We are throwing out hundreds of old large size indexes, catalogs, and other large bound materials at the library. If you want any of them for projects please let us know ASAP so you can make arrangements for picking them up as we don’t deliver.

Please pass this on to other art & design faculty and/or students. You or anyone interested can contact me at ts20@txstate.edu

Fibers Resources at Alkek Library

Welcome back everyone! Hope you all had a great summer. I have a couple of lists I wanted to share with with you and one document. One is a Fibers Resources at Alkek Library Bibliography which is a list of fibers related books, ebooks, databases, and periodicals. The other is a list that contains library catalog links and locations for fibers related books, ebooks, and videos.

And here is a list of current fibers related periodicals that we subscribe to that can be found on the 3rd floor alphabetically by title for easy browsing and some available online:

AATCC review

Clothing and textiles research journal / Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing

Coloration technology electronic resource : the journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists

Ecotextile news

Fashion practice

Fiberarts

Shuttle, spindle & dyepot

Surface design journal

Taunton's threads (Newtown, Conn : 1998) Taunton's threads

Textile : the journal of cloth and culture

Textile history

Textile month

Textile research journal : publication of Textile Research Institute, Inc and the Textile Foundation

Textile technology complete electronic resource

Textile world

Textiles magazine


Coming soon! Ways to find images at Alkek!