Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art, architectural and historical images. Bridgeman’s search tools allow the user to browse the collection thematically (architecture, land and sea, emotions and ideas, etc.) and by image type (black and white photograph, object, illustration, etc.), artist, and participating collections.
Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.
The Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
The Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden has created a Picture Bank that contains 2,500 digital photographs and drawings primarily documenting twentieth-century Swedish design. The images available through Arkitekturmuseet showcase Scandinavian architecture and urbanism while illustrating the lifestyle of the modern. Building and formal typologies represented include industry and retail trade, sport and leisure facilities, the landscape, furniture and furnishings, and interior design for both private and public buildings.
Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100
Registration deadline: April 24, 2009
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009
This international ideas competition solicits bold visions that describe how the Bronx and the Grand Concourse can evolve in coming decades to cope with pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation. The best ideas, designs, descriptions and images will be exhibited at The Bronx Museum in November-December 2009 as part of the Intersections: Grand Concourse at 100 exhibition.
2009 Fresh Wood Student Competition
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009
The design competition is open to students in an accredited woodworking or related program that are transitioning into a career in woodworking or design. Categories include chairs, tables, production, and reproduction. Projects entered in the competition must be completed at the time of entry with the exception of the finish coating. Finalist designs will be on display at the AWFS®Fair.
The James Dyson Award
Submission deadline: June 15, 2009
Design something that solves a problem. The competition is open to product design, industrial design, and engineering university level students.
Time to Design
Submission deadline: June 24, 2009
The Time to Design prize includes three months residency at the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, 50.000 DKK donated by The Danish Ministry of Culture, and two weeks exhibition at the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store.
Design 09: Precast Design Awards Competition
Submission deadline: September 4, 2009
MAPA created Design 09 to honor architects and students who employ precast concrete to achieve design and performance objectives of in-design or completed projects in the mid-Atlantic region. Design 09 includes two separate competitions: one for projects designed by professional architects and one for students.
For information on these and other design competitions visit Metropolis.
Delftware apothecary pots, 1680-1720, London
The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin has digitized and cataloged images of the Chipstone collection of early American furniture and the Longridge collection of British delft and slipware. UW’s Material Culture Program also maintains a list of resources for the study of decorative arts, interior design and vernacular architecture.
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