Design Arts
Museums
Design Museum London
Explores excellence in every area of design from industrial, graphics and multimedia, to fashion and architecture.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible.
Museum of Arts & Design
Collection and exhibition of contemporary objects created by artists in the fields of craft, art and design.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum of decorative arts and design with a searchable database of over 30,000 works and 50,000 images from the collections including furniture, ceramics, glass, fashion, paintings, metalwork, prints, photographs, textiles, and sculpture.
Vitra Design Museum
Collections of modern furniture from all major eras and periods from the nineteenth century to the present, also houses an extensive research library.
Geffrye Museum
Period rooms with collections of paintings, textiles, furniture and decorative arts dating from 1600 to the present day.
The Metal Museum
National Ornamental Metal Museum devoted to promoting fine metalwork with exhibits, classed, metalworking facilities and a library.
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture
Varied exhibitions and searchable collections including the Charles Hasler Collection, the Crown Wallpaper Collection, the JM Richards Library, Silver Studio and more.
Cranbrook Art Museum
Features rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, highlights from the permanent collection, and an archives page that serves as the primary research center for the documentation and study of Cranbrook's history.
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design
School of architecture, design and art with a collection of the schools activities including furniture, ceramics, architecture, photography, metalwork, stage pieces, student work works created by the school's famous teachers such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, and others.
Resources
Media Inspiration
A collection of resources to inspire design professionals, including books, products, web sites, designers, and other works.
Smithsonian: Art and Design
Online resources from the Smithsonian Institute.
InformeDesign
A research database and communication tool for designers with new articles added weekly.
New York Times: Art & Design
News and reviews on paintings, photography, antiques, museums, sculpture, galleries, architects and artists.
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
An interactive textbook designed for a Cornell University course that covers the elements and principles of design.
Art and Design: What's the Difference?
An article by Michael Brady that outlines the difference between art and design.
