This online gallery contains over 30,000 images from the British Library's collection.

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.

Learn about the history of IKEA and view IKEA catalogs going back to the 1950s.

A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.

This article database also includes high-resolution art images that have been approved for academic use.

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.

America's largest free, open digital library of major US 20th-century architecture publications.

Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images, including fashion and textiles.

The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum collects documents relating to the activities of the Bauhaus, including photographs, books, designs, models and artistic works.

You can search images of their entire collection, even by color!

Design from Denmark.

Information on designers and architects.

Presents the design contributions of women from around the world. Works date from 1900 to the present and are drawn from the Stewart Collection a the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

American design museum in Detroit, Michigan.

Swiss design museum.

The collection consists of 9000 items from the middle of the 19th century to the present day, complemented by the loan of the Plastics Historical Society Collection.

French decorative arts and design.

Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images, including fashion and textiles.

The world's greatest museum of art and design.

A German design museum that contains estates of several important figures in design history, including Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Verner Panton and Alexander Girard.