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designinform
Design Abstracts Retrospective
Design ProFILES
ReVIEW [full text]
Dear ARLIS members
In the run-up to the Pasadena, and for a period after, we are making designinform free to access for delegates at the conference
The URL for access is www.designinform.co.uk/database/index.php
The username is: arlis2013 and the password is: pasadena (all lower case)
Access is available from today !
For those not familiar with designinform, it consists of three related databases:
Design Abstracts Retrospective – abstracts of articles and index of images in decorative and applied arts journals from 1900 to the late 1980s
Design ProFILES - a biographical dictionary of artists, designers and architects active between the 1870s and 2000. This currently contains data on over 25,000 names
ReVIEW [full text] – the digitization of most of the major decorative, fine, decorative and applied arts journals and serial publications issued in the USA and Europe between the 1870s and 1920s
See: http://www.designinform.co.uk/
In addition to the 35 or so titles already announced, see: http://www.designinform.co.uk/review.htm we have digitized or will be digitizing the following publications for the ReVIEW :
American Art Annual
New York, NY: American Federation of Arts, monthly, 1898- [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1898-1923. Available 2013]
For research on the history of American and Canadian art during the years covered, this is an indispensable source.
L’Art et les Artistes. Revue Mensuelle d’Art Ancien et Moderne
Paris, France: Au Bureau de 'L'Art et les artistes', monthly, 1905-1939 [The period covered initially by designinform ReVIEW will be 1905-1922. Available 2014]
The Artist: an Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries
London, England: The Artist, 1880-1902 [The period covered initially by designinform ReVIEW will be 1896-1902. Available 2013-14]
Design in Modern Industry. The Year-Book of the Design & Industries Association
London, England: Benn Brothers, annual, 1922-1924 [The period by designinform ReVIEW will be 1922-1924. Available 2013]
Drawing and Design
London, England: Proprietors of Drawing and Design, monthly, 1920-1926 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1902-1926. Available 2013]
Dressler’s Kunstjahrbuch / Dressler’s Kunsthandbuch
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G., etc.: irregular, 1906-1930 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1906-1921. Available 2013]
Contains biographical information on thousands of contemporary German, Austrian and German-speaking artists, architects and designers not included in Thieme-Becker, Benezit, etc. Also contains profiles of most of the leading art galleries, museums, art societies, art schools, etc. in Germany and Austria. Very few libraries, even in Germany, have copies of this invaluable research source
The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
London, England: S.O. Beeton, etc., monthly, 1852-1879 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1860-1879. Available 2014]
Femina
Paris: Lafitte et Cie, monthly, 1901-1938 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1901-1925. Available 2014]
Kunst und Handwerk
Munich: Druck und Verlag R. Oldenbourg,, monthly, 1897-1920 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1897-1920. Available 2013]
Penrose’s Pictorial Annual Photography & Printing Process Year Book
London: A.W. Penrose & Co. Ltd./Percy Lund Humphries, annual, 1895-1982 [The period covered initially by designinform ReVIEW will be 1900-1925. Available 2014]
Transactions of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and its Application to Industry
London England: National Association for the Advancement of Art and its Application to industry, annual, 1889-1891 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1889-1891. Available 2012]
Contains essays by William Morris, Walter Crane, Christopher Whall, J.D. Sedding, C.R. Ashbee, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Emery-Walker, W. Holman Hunt, John Brett, Heywood Sumner, Lewis F. Day, Patrick Geddes, Selwyn Image, Stanhope Forbes, , G.F. Watts, A.H. Mackmurdo, Henry Holiday, W.S. Frith, etc.
Wendingen
Amsterdam: MHCHIJ De Hooge Brug, monthly, 1918-1931 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1918-1925. Available 2013-14]
Who’s Who in Architecture
London, England: The Architectural Press, irregular, 1914, 1923, 1926 (all published) [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1914-1923. Available 2013]
Invaluable as a source for research on architects active in Britain during the years covered
Who’s Who in British Advertising
London, England: Gainsborough Publishing, 1924-1929 [The period covered initially by designinform ReVIEW will be 1924. Available]
The Year’s Art
London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, annual, 1880-1947 [The period covered by designinform ReVIEW will be 1898-1923. Available 2013-14]
For research on the history of British art during the years covered, this is an indispensable source. Its digitization will formidable challenge
All of these titles are cross-searchable.
The interface of ReVIEW is in the process of being redesigned. This will enhance the efficiency of searching the many journals we are digitizing. New features will include the subject indexing of articles; profiles of all artists whose work is discussed or illustrated; the translations of the articles titles and captions in non-English journals; numerous Web links; bibliographies; etc.
We have plans to digitize a number of books and exhibition catalogues on topics that compliment the journals we are digitizing. The first topic we have chosen is The Art of the Poster. It will include a number of significant titles published between the 1890s and 1920s. Future topics will include International Exhibitions on World’s Fairs, and the Special issues of The Studio magazine.
We will be exhibiting at Pasadena conference [booth no. 1401] and would be pleased share with you our ideas for the future of designinform.
Best wishes
Chris
Chris Mees
Editor – designinform
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