Graphic Design Subject Guide: Web Resources

The AIGA archives identify, preserve, and make available records to support research.

A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives.

Founded by the Cooper Union and friends of the late Herb Lubalin, the Study Center was created to preserve Lubalin’s collection of work.

The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, a division of the Visual Arts Foundation, is dedicated to preserving and making accessible design works of significant artistic, cultural, and historical value by preeminent designers, illustrators, and art directors who have close ties to the School of Visual Arts.

The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that will include everything from finished projects to process, photos, letters, oral histories, anecdotes, published and unpublished articles, essays, and other supporting material in the form of documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.

The Graphic Design Archive (GDA) at Rochester Institute of Technology documents and preserves the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions.

This site aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more.

Brand New is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling and providing opinions on corporate and brand identity work. Covers redesigns and new designs of notable products, companies, services, and organizations across all industries and locations.

designboom joined forces with architonic and archdaily to consolidate their combined position as the world’s foremost destination for curated, inspiring, and relevant premium art and design content.

Design Observer is a website devoted to a range of design topics including graphic design, social innovation, urbanism, popular culture, and criticism.

AIGA Eye on Design covers the world’s most exciting designers—and the issues they care about.

AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.

Members create a unified voice for the global design community and drive a high level dialogue on the leading role design plays in society, culture and the economy.

Promotes the art of illustration, to appreciate its history and evolving nature through exhibitions, lectures and education, and to contribute the service of its members to the welfare of the community at large.

We enable graphic artists and other design professionals to build and maintain successful careers by providing skills and support.