The best of 2024

What has everyone been reading this year? Take a look at some of our most viewed content.

The Bloomsbury Visual Arts digital hub brings together Bloomsbury’s leading visual arts resources onto one cross-searchable platform. Discover some of the vast array of interdisciplinary content available on the hub below.

All content on the hub is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts, spanning textbooks, reference, primary material, monographs, and multimedia to offer a diverse, engaging and authoritative research environment.

This year we added three new collections Art, Race and Gender, Global and Regional Art, and Packt Game Development and Animation.

With such a large range of resources where should you start?

We’ve picked some of the most viewed content for you to explore, all free to access until the end of January 2025.

• ‘Daylight and the form of buildings’, Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design from the Architecture Design & Practice Online collection
• ‘Basics’, Basics Photography 01: Composition from the Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts collection
• ’Eastern Europe, 1900–1970’, Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, Volume 2 from the Bloomsbury Architecture Library collection
• Art Cologne from the Bloomsbury Art Markets collection
• ’Equality’, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon from the Bloomsbury Design Library collection

Looking for teaching and learning resources? Ours are always free, here are some of the most popular from this year:

• Graphic Design subject guide
• Love bibliographic guide
• Decolonization and Design lesson plan

Find out more about our collections as well as our trial and purchasing options.

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