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Design: Visual Communication

Key resources

Bloomsbury Design Library is a collection of ebooks, encyclopedias and other resources relating to design practise and design history. It includes the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design (three volumes), Victor Margolin's World History of Design (two volumes), the Encyclopedia of Asian Design (two volumes), over 100 biographies of key figures, an interactive timeline, and an expanding range of eBooks.

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The Burwood campus libraries have a rich collection of visual art journals in print. At Burwood campus these are located in the Periodicals compactus, in the far right corner of Level 1 of the Burwood library. You cannot borrow the print journals, but can use them in the library to read, scan and photocopy. Please don't cut up or damage these journals - some of the older issues are irreplaceable! They are an amazing resource worth exploring.

Key titles include:

IdN: International Designers Network  MELB PER 741.6092 Int/Idn, WATERFT PER 741.6092 Int/Idn
Eye: the International Review of Graphic Art  MELB PER 741.6 Eti/Rog

Colour photograph of Burwood periodicals compactus   

Image source: photos by Marina Minns, 2020.

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Licensing information: Please read what you can and can't do with each resource in the A-Z Databases under 'License Information'. Queries can be sent to the Publisher Licensing Consultant.


Article requests

  Found an article that looks interesting? Can't find it online or it's only available in print at another campus?

   You can request a scanned copy via our document delivery service.