CCAD Packard Library: Advertising and Graphic Design: Images

Current Advertising Images

Ads of the World
Contemporary ads from around the world, including award winners.
CSA Images
Stock images including hand drawn original retro illustrations and photographs created by over one hundred talented designers, artists, and photographers who have worked with CSA Design over the decades.

Historic Images

Ad*Access
American advertisements from 1911 to 1955. From Duke University.
AIGA Design Archives
AIGA’s annual juried design competitions, 1924 - present. In addition, it features special collections of major American design firms and practitioners.
Emergence of Advertising Art in America: 1850-1920
Presents over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. Drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Florida International University - The Wolfsonian
One of the largest university art collections in the country focuses on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design dating from 1850 to 1950.
History of Advertising Trust
A large archive of UK adversiting history. Currently, every entry to the British Television Advertising Awards from 1977 to the present are available online (Arrows Archive).
International Advertising & Design Database
An archive of international ads and graphic design.
Letterform Archive
A curated collection of over 60,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.
London Transport Museum Digital Collections
Images of posters, textiles, maps, and more.
People's Graphic Design Archive (PGDA)
A crowd-sourced repository of, by, and for enthusiasts of graphic design.
Poster House
A museum in New York City exclusively for poster design / advertising / history.
RIT Graphic Design Archive Online
The Graphic Design Archives at the Rochester Institute of Technology document and preserve the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1950s
Sears Archives
More than 100 years of advertising and department store history now available online.
Smithsonian Libraries' Trade Literature Collection
More than 400,000 catalogs, technical manuals, advertising brochures, price lists, company histories and related materials. Researchers use the trade literature collection to determine the history of companies or individual industries, describe styles from furniture to machinery, analyze marketing and management techniques, and examine illustrations of every product imaginable.
VADS: the Online Resource for the Visual Arts
Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images, including fashion and textiles.

Bodies in Motion Image Database

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Contains high-resolution images of athletes and dancers in motion to help art students deepen their understanding of form, function and anatomy of the figure.

Vogue Archive

Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month.

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