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The Library welcomes recommendations from staff and students, provided they are current editions and support the learning, teaching and research interests of the University. Make your request through the Collection Recommendation Service.

Featured Journals

Creative Review
Creative Review is available online, with copies going back to 1980. It comes out bi-monthly, the latest issue is the Annual, which looks back across the best developments in advertising, design and digital from the past year.

Subject	Shelf Number
Advertising	659.1
Bookbinding	686.3
Book Illustration	741.609
Computer Software	006.68
Colour Theory	752
Drawing and Illustration	743.7
Graphic Design	741.6092
Graphic Design Theory	741.6072
Graphic Storytelling	741.5
Magazine design/layout	741.65
Posters and advertisements	741.674
Printing Making	760.028
Type & Typography	686.224

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Journals provide up to date research in your area of study, they may be available in print or electronic format and can be found using LibrarySearch. A list of all current journals can be found using the Journals A-Z, the most relevant are -

Creative Review
Focuses on commercial creativity, covering design, advertising, photography, branding, digital products, film and gaming
Design and Culture
Design and Culture is an academic journal that reflects how design is deeply engaged with socio-political and cultural issues.
Design Issues
Design history, theory and criticism.
Design Management Journal
Design Management Institute
Eye Magazine
Graphic design and visual culture

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Databases bring together specialist collections of articles, images and electronic books. A list of all current databases can be found using the Databases A-Z, the most relevant are -

Adforum This link opens in a new window
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The AdForum Creative Network is a comprehensive library of over 150,000 award-winning advertisements produced worldwide. Watch, listen and read through the catalogue of television, web radio, and print ads, as well as individual case studies. Ads are sourced from the 36 leading international award shows and over 20,000 agencies worldwide.
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Indexes and provides the full text of journal articles on art, design, advertising, architecture, crafts, interior design, photography, textiles, television and video.
Creative Commons This link opens in a new window
CC Search is a search tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone - providing access to over 3 million images.
DAAI - Design and Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window
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DAAI is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals. 1973 to present.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar is a freely available search tool that helps you to find academic articles and books on the web. It searches publishers’ websites, university research repositories and other kinds of scholarly sites. It provides a broad and interdisciplinary search and includes the ability to track the number of times an article has been cited by other authors as well as direct links to UCA online collections. For more information see - Using Google Scholar.
RHS Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
RHS Digital Collections spans over 500 years of gardening history and science. As part of a commitment to improving access many collections are now freely available to view online, to students, researchers and the general public.
Stash This link opens in a new window
Stash is an online video library of animation, visual effects and motion design from around the world. The site is produced by Stash Media, a Canadian-based company.
Statista This link opens in a new window
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Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries. See Getting started with Statista to learn more.
Underground and Independent Comics This link opens in a new window
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The first scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. 1943 to present.
WARC This link opens in a new window
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The World Advertising Research Center is a premier provider of information to the global marketing, advertising, media and research industries. Provides over 45,000 papers, case studies, research reports and statistics and full text access to leading industry publications.
WGSN: Insight This link opens in a new window
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WGSN Insight provides trend analysis and consumer behaviour reports on technology, marketing, design, retail and business strategy across a range of industries, including gaming, entertainment, beauty and AI.
See - Getting started with WGSN to learn more about how to setup and use WGSN.

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Moving Image Resources

BoB This link opens in a new window
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BoB is on demand TV and radio service for education which allows staff and students to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and search our archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts. See - Using BoB to learn more about how to setup and use BoB.
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The BFI video on-demand streaming service, showing critically acclaimed classic, cult and archive films.
To create or reactivate an account go to the Academic Subscription Page
See the FAQ for further instructions on creating an account.
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Kanopy is a video streaming service with a Netflix-style interface which can be accessed via the link above or using the Kanopy mobile app for Android and iOS.
Login required off campus to watch films (log in with your UCA details to create a Kanopy login).
Stash This link opens in a new window
Stash is an online video library of animation, visual effects and motion design from around the world. The site is produced by Stash Media, a Canadian-based company.
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive listing of UK television and radio broadcasts. Selected programmes of value to higher and further education are reviewed. Click the login button and select the University for the Creative Arts from the dropdown - you will then be taken to a login page.

Podcast Resources

Creative Boom
This podcast talks with new and established artists, designers, illustrators and photographers about their careers.
Design Matters
Podcast that looks into all aspects of design and creative culture, it features interviews with designers, artists, curators, musicians and writers.
Illustration Department Podcast
Giuseppe Castellano talks to folks in illustration, graphic design, publishing, animation, and other creative fields about the ups and downs of their careers.
Nicer Tuesdays
It's Nice That hold a monthly talk with speakers from the creative industries, the podcast series has the recordings from the talks.
Ramblings of a designer
"Ramblings of a Designer is a weekly podcast where we discuss the latest graphic design news from around the web."
Revision Path
"Revision Path™ is an award-winning platform that showcases Black designers, artists, developers, and digital creatives from all over the world. Through weekly in-depth interviews on our podcast, you’ll learn about their work, their goals, and what inspires them as creative individuals."

Image Resources

Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Over 2.5 million rights-cleared and high quality images from 46 of the world's leading collections.
VADS This link opens in a new window
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Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education. For more information about searching, viewing and saving images see - VADS.

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Archives offer access to rare and unique insight into the work of artists and creators, and often include original letters and artwork. Details of all the collections can be found in the ArchiveSearch, the most relevant for graphic design are -

Artists Books
Are works of art in a book, or book-like form. The appearance and production of the work is determined by the artist as a limited edition.
Digitised front covers can be viewed in ResourceBank

Bob Godfrey Archive
Internationally celebrated animator who founded the Animation programme at UCA Farnham – we hold his scripts, storyboards, correspondence, and animation cels.
A selection of of animations are available on ResourceBank

bookRoom
The bookRoom is a research cluster based in Farnham since 2004, under the leadership of Emmanuelle Waeckerle. The bookRoom collection consists of publish artists books and editions works that operates across various time-based media, photography, moving image, writing and performance.
A selection of digitised books can be viewed here

Business Card Collection
A unique private collection – 240,000 business cards from across the world dating from the mid-nineteenth century demonstrating the development of the business calling card as a medium of advertising.

Diagram Group Archive
Founded by Bob Chapman and Bruce Robertson in 1960’s. Diagram was one of the most prolific creators of visual information books in the 20th century – we care for most of its manuscripts and art works.

Foundry Types
Freda Sack and David Quay, the creators of Foundry Types, eight concept designs of NatWest fonts produced pre 2001, showing work in progress and different types of typography.

Kristian Andrews
Animators storyboards and ink drawings from 'Rabbit Punch', an autobiographical film on his life growing up.
A selection of animations are available on ResourceBank

Stuart Hilton
Artwork of an experimental documentary for '6 Weeks in June', 1996. A road animation of 11000 miles around the USA in six weeks in the back of a van with a band, a pen, and a stack of paper.

Tandem Films Tandem Film Daniel Greaves Studios
Animations produced by Tandem Films including ‘Flatworld’ (1997) and ‘Manipulation’ (1991) - this collection consists storyboards, scripts, and artworks.
A selection of animations are available on ResourceBank

Typographic Circle
Poster collection (2008 - 2015). Founded by Maggie Lewis in 1976, Typographic Circle brought together people with an interest in typography and type.

Working Press Archive
Books by and about working class artists and other marginalised groups of artist. Collected by Stefan Szczelkun,1986-1996 - contains correspondence, conference material, publicity, published book collection, pamphlets and zines. Working Press Zine front covers on ResourceBank

Zines
Are a unique form of self-expression “do it yourself“ magazines. They cover any subject, common themes include feminism, music, politics, activism, literature, personal, crafts, art and design, and travel. Available at Canterbury, Epsom, and Farnham.
Digitised front covers can be viewed in ResourceBank