Following our new journal subscriptions to the design magazines Character Design Quarterly, Edge and ImagineFX it’s great to see the shelves filling up with more issues. From just one issue per magazine earlier in...
A new podcast series – ‘New Thinking’ – was launched in 2019 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is presented by New Generation Thinkers and is released fortnightly, and will help you...
D&AD celebrates creative communication within the design industry. Each year the D&AD annual is published – they are full of the best advertising and graphics in the world for that year. Check out the...
Explore world-class museums all over the UK and enjoy a year of endless inspiration with friends, for your studies, or just for you. Miss nothing with an Art Pass. Experience over 240 museums, galleries...
Have you ever thought about visual literacy, what is means in the arts, what it means to you? The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College, Chicago) has a brief introduction to visual literacy, which...
Have you heard the news? You can recommend books to us that you’d like to see added to the library’s collection for you and your colleagues to use. Using the ‘Suggest books to buy‘...
Are you interested in reading more widely about design? She Ji is a peer-reviewed, trans-disciplinary design journal with a focus on economics and innovation, design process and design thinking. “She Ji is fully open...
We in the library are big fans of reference management software, as it takes a lot of the admin and headache out of managing your reading and getting your references and bibliographies just right....
Following our new journal subscriptions to the design magazines ‘3D Artist‘ and ‘3D World‘, it’s great to see the shelves filling up with more issues. From just one issue per magazine earlier in the...
Have you ever thought about how medieval manuscripts were made? From animal skin to bound book, watch a series of videos from the British Library on the steps to making a decorated manuscript. Then...
Have you started writing your Christmas cards yet? Do you think about the design of the card? Explore Christmas card designs over the years. The Victoria and Albert Museum and Toronto Public Library have...
“The Friends of Malmesbury Abbey commissioned the British Library to digitise four volumes of its Bible, known as the Malmesbury Bible, this summer. Malmesbury had one of the most important libraries in Europe in...
Are you an artist? Are you inspired by Barbara Hepworth? Do you know about her drawings? Have you come across her hospital drawings? Read about this story in the open access article in the...
NEPN (North East Photography Network) presents a new exhibition exploring the relationship between photography and science. Observe, Experiment, Archive brings together for the first time, the work of eight contemporary photographic artists and reflects...
Are you free on Saturday 23rd November 2.45pm? Can you get to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens? Book now to hear Helen McGhie and Dan Monk from Kielder Observatory talking about the inspiration behind...