DESIGN

Contemporary Designers
Provides information on graphic, industrial/product, fashion, textile, interior design, costume and theater and film set designers. Each entry includes a personal and a professional biography, a list of representative works, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living entrants contributed a statement on their work or on contemporary design in general, and an illustration of a work.
NK1166 .C66 1990  DAAP Ref Oversize

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference materials. The content is enriched with images, sound files, maps and customizable data tables.

Design Encyclopedia
Design Encyclopedia is a comprehensive design reference guide featuring designers from around the world. Each designer entry incorporates dates, a biography, details of design education, major works, exhibitions, awards, and a bibliography. Other entries discuss firms, materials, groups, and movements.
NK1370 .B93 1994b  DAAP Reference

The Design of Everyday Things
TS171.4.N67 2002   DAAP Stacks

The Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Provides extensive worldwide coverage of art, art styles, subjects, and media in addition to biographies of both Western and Non-Western artists, patrons, critics, and collections. Includes over 41,000 signed articles that provide bibliographic data and are usually illustrated.   Volume 34: Index contains extensive cross-references to additional material.

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion / Valerie Steele, editor in chief 
GT 507  .E53  2005  v.1-3   DAAP Reference

Oxford Reference Online
Provides online access to the following resources: A Dictionary of Architecture ,
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists , The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms ,
The Oxford Dictionary of Art , A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art , and The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Symbols.com
Online encyclopedia of graphic symbols

Universal principles of design / William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler 
NK1165 .L53 2003   DAAP  Reference