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Graphic Design Webliography

ArtSource - http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/

This site is an annotated directory of links to art and architecture Web sites, including image databases and online journals.

Communication Arts - http://www.commarts.com/index.html

The Web site for Communication Arts magazine, including articles on graphic design for print and new media, information on career marketing, and updates on available resources for graphic designers.

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/

This site contains a vocabulary of almost 120,000 terms defining objects, materials, styles, and material culture.

American Institute of Graphic Arts - http://www.aiga.org/

The official Web site of this professional association for graphic arts. It includes membership information and galleries of designs submitted by members and students.

The Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies - http://www.comicsresearch.org/

A searchable bibliography of monographs and edited collections of articles on comic books and comic strips.

Comics Research Bibliography - http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html

A searchable bibliography of nearly 9,000 books and articles on comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, and cartoons.

Professional Cartoonists' Index - http://cagle.slate.msn.com/

A superb site for anyone entering the field of cartooning. It includes current cartoons, a national index to cartoonists, indexes to syndicated and non-syndicated cartoons, a list of cartoonist organizations, resources for cartoonists, and links to other Web sites on the subject.

Posters at the Library of Congress - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/var:@field(COLLID+var)::SortBy=CALL

More than 2,000 posters are available for online viewing from the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Visiobrand - https://www.visiobrand.com/

A searchable database of corporate brands and their logos. Good for comparing competing brands.

Trademarks - http://www.ggmark.com/

Links to trademark issues, as well as copyright, multimedia, advertising, and international trade laws.

Trademark Information - http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html

This link to the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office contains the Trademark Database of federally registered and pending trademarks. The site includes a FAQ section, explanation of pertinent laws, and online applications.

Omniglot - http://www.omniglot.com/

Subtitled a guide to written language, this site includes details on most of the world's writing systems and the languages associated with those systems. Links are provided for downloading many of these fonts.

Design of Signage - http://www.designofsignage.com/

This Web site provides a section on the theory of signage, including papers and case studies, as well as an application section, which provides a very large number of examples, and useful links to resources on the topic.

Symbols.com - http://www.symbols.com/

"The world's largest encyclopedia of graphic symbols," according to the site. One can search for the meaning or history of a sign in the Graphic Index or for specific ideograms in the Word Index. Using the Easy Graphic Search, it is also possible to search for all ideograms that have the same graphic characteristics.

See also "Art History" in General Education -

See also "Copyright" in General Education -