Design history resources and archives

American Institute of Graphic Arts
164 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
www.aiga.org

Printed ephemera dating from the early beginnings of the organization, including materials from the AIGA annual, tapes from past talks, national conferences, lecture series and seminars.

Contact. Heather Strelecki, Information Specialist, 212 710 3145. aiga@aiga.org

Arts of the Book Collection
Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06520
http://www.library.yale.edu/aob/

Examples of and material relating to the book and its attendant arts: binding, typography, illustration, calligraphy, book design and architecture, paper making and decorative papers and the history of the book.

Contact. Jennifer Williams, Curator, 203 432 1712, jennifer.williams@yale.edu

Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive
Denver Art Museum
100 West 14 Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204 2788
www.denverartmuseum.org

Extensive collection of Bayer’s artwork including paintings, watercolors, drawings, pastels, graphics, photography, sculpture, models, designs for Bayer’s large-scale projects, textiles and jewelry, exhibition design, furniture design, book, catalogs, announcements, pamphlets, magazines and other documents. Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum (University of Washington Press, 1998) by Gwen Chanzit is the catalogue of the collection.

Contact. Gwen Chanzit, Curator, 720 865 5000, gchanzit@denverartmuseum.org

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Library and Archives
2 East 91 Street
New York, NY 10128
www.si.edu/ndm/

A variety of materials, ranging from slides and book covers to promotional materials, printed ads, to original artwork, correspondence, clippings and drawings. www.siris.si.edu (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) is the search engine that serves the entire Smithsonian Institution.

Contact. Stephen Van Dyk, Head Librarian, 212 849 8330, vandyst@ch.si.edu

Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
1221 North Woodward Avenue
Box 81
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
www.cranbrookart.edu/library/

An extensive collection on graphic design history, theory and professional practice. Books are available through inter-library loan.

Contact. Judy Dyki, Head Librarian, 248 645 3364 , jdyki@cranbrook.edu

The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049 1688
www.getty.edu/gri/
Primary materials for the history of modern artistic and intellectual movements such as Realism, Symbolism, Futurism, the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism and Fluxus.

Contact. Susan M. Allen, Chief Librarian, 310 440 7335, reference@getty.edu

Walter Gropius Archive
Lyonnel Feininger Archive
Busch-Reisiger Museum
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/busch/index.html
Walter Gropius's architectural drawings and related photographs as well as Feininger’s drawings and photographs. The Walter Gropius Archive (Harvard University, 1990-1991) edited by Winfried Nerdinger is the catalogue of the Gropius archive. Contact. Tawney Becker, Curatorial Assistant, 617 495 2317, tlbecker@fas.harvard.edu

R. Hunter Middleton Chicago Design Archive
University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard J. Daley Library, M/C 234
Special Collections
Box 8198
Chicago, IL 60680-8198
www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/index.shtml
Numerous collections that document the history of design in Chicago, with special emphasis on the period dating from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Contact. Gretchen Lagana, Special Collections Librarian, 312 996 2742, lib-spec@listserv.uic.edu

International Dada Archive
University of Iowa
100 Main Library
Iowa City, IA 52242 1420
www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/
The work of Dadaists with strong involvement in typography and advertising design (George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Iliazd, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Tschichold, Tristan Tzara).

Contact. Timothy Shipe, Curator, 319 335 5824, timothy- shipe@uiowa.edu

The Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
101 Independence. Ave, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/
202 707 6394
lcweb@loc.gov (specify that query is for prints and photographs division)

A collection of American, European and Latin American popular and applied graphic arts, caricatures, posters, cartoons and political prints.

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
Cooper Union
7 East 7 Street
New York, NY 10003
www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin/Welcome.html
The graphic work of Herb Lubalin, in addition to the works of other New York–based designers such as Lou Dorfsman, George Tscherny and Push Pin Studios.

Contact. Ann Holcomb, 212 353 4214, lubctr@cooper.edu

Museum of Modern Art Library
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
www.moma.org/docs/research/overview/index.htm
Ephemera, covers and posters including large holdings of designers such as Cheret, Holwein, Kauffer, Cassandre, Bayer, Matter, Beall, Tanaka, Muller-Brockman and Starowieyski. The website provides a link to the Museum's DADABASE, the combined online catalogue of the Library, Museum Archivers and Study Center.

Contact. Jenny Tobias, Associate Reference Librarian,
212 708 9433, library@moma.org

Rochester Institute of Technology
Wallace Memorial Library
90 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
http://wally.rit.edu/collections/special.html

Collection of posters, cartoons and materials documenting the work of graphic designers such as Mehemed Fehmy Agha, hans Barschel, Lester Beall, Alexey Brodovich, Will Burtin, George Giusti, William Golden, Alvin Lustig, Cipe Pineles and Ladislav Sutnar.

Contact. Kari Horowicz, Art and Photography Librarian, 716 475 2557, kehwml@rit.edu

Walker Art Center Achives and Library
Vineland Place
Minneapolis, MN 55403
www.walkerart.org/resources/res_arch_frame.html
Exhibition catalogs, artists' books and design periodicals, as well as taped interviews and lectures by designers such as Wolfgang Weingart, Tibor Kalman, Ivan Chermayeff, Charles and Ray Eames, April Greiman, Katherine McCoy and Massimo Vignelli.

Contact. Rosemary Furtak, Librarian, 612 375 7680, rosemary.furtak@walkerart.org

Wolfsonian Foundation Library
1001 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
www.wolfsonian.org
Decorative and fine arts, objects, posters, original works of art on paper, archival materials, books and ephemera on the decorative design and architectural arts.

Contact. Frank Luca, Head Librarian, 305 535 2641, lucaf@fiu.edu