Bloomsbury Design Library provides cutting-edge scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day.
It offers an expanding range of authoritative reference and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images, which are fully searchable and underpinned by an intuitive taxonomy for seamless navigation.
The ideal research and learning tool for design and visual arts, its coverage includes graphic, product and industrial design, and important themes such as sustainability, globalisation and design futures. Users can also discover a vast array of content on crafts and making, ceramics and art history. It will support both students and academics by allowing them to explore the theory, history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines.
Bloomsbury Design Library is available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access. New and updated content is made available annually, and institutions can request a 30-day free trial.
Bloomsbury Design Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad range of reference works, e-books, images, exhibitions collections, and more: