Graphic Design & New Media
Resources for Graphic Design & New Media
Graphic Design & New Media definitions and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
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AAT: Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
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A structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Coverage ranges from Antiquity to the present. International.
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Artlex: Visual Arts Dictionary
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2,600 terms covering all aspects of art. It includes illustrations, pronunciation notes and links to other resources.
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Cinema Studies: the key concepts
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Access for UOW staff and students only
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Grove Dictionary of Art
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Art in all periods and areas. Art forms, styles and movements, civilisations and cultures, subject matters and materials. International. UOW staff and students only.
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Oxford Reference Online
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General reference.Fulltext of dictionaries and other reference books.International.
UOW staff and students only.
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Symbols
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An encyclopedia of 2,500 graphic symbols. It contains both a graphic index and a word index.
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Print dictionaries and encyclopedias
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The computer animation dictionary: including related terms used in computer graphics, film and video, production, and desktop publishing
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700.285/2
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Contemporary Designers
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745.44/4
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The design encyclopedia
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745.203/1
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The film encyclopedia
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791.4303/15
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International dictionary of films and filmmakers
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791.4303/10
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The Thames & Hudson dictionary of graphic design and designers
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741.6/31
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
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- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
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Graphic Design & New Media books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs, DVDs and exhibition catalogues If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. graphic design AND typography
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. design** will retrieve design, designs, designer, designers or designing Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. graphic design AND typography AND posters
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Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Graphic Design & New Media journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and newspapers Try these first Complete list of Creative Art databases Found a useful reference?Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database. Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. graphic design AND typography
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. graphic design OR graphic arts
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
e.g. design* retrieves design, designs, designer, designers or designing
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
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Graphic Design & New Media Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Try the following sites as a starting point. Commercial/Corporate sitesCulture JammingTerry Flew on anti-corporate activism on the Web: An important component of ... new anti-corporate activism is culture-jamming. 'Culture-jamming' is a term used to describe activities such as billboard alteration, hacking into corporate Web sites, media stunts, and printed materials that mock corporate logos (for example stickers and T-shirts), as well as Web-based and broadcast 'counter-media' that tells alternative stories (Cox 2001). Culture-jamming on the Internet has been linked to cyber-squatting or the parodying of Web sites of leading corporations, government agencies, and global organisations – which utilises domain names that are comparable to those of these organisations. Examples of such sites include <www.gatt.org> (parodying the WTO site at <www.wto.org>), and <www.whitehouse.org> and <www.gwbush.org> which all parody and critique the United States Government Web site <www.whitehouse.gov> (not to be confused with <www.whitehouse.com>, which is a porn site). (Flew. 203) Flew's useful Web sitesGame sitesMusicTypographyWeb designWeb motion graphicsDirectoriesDirectories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- Librarian's Index to the Internet
This site provides a well organised point of access to sites on web design including fonts and multimedia as well as links to the arts.
- WWAR.com (World Wide Arts Resources)
Useful links under Commercial Arts and Art History.
- Yahoo
This multidisciplinary directory includes links to many aspects of graphic design (inc. typography, web page design and layout.) Search enginesSearch engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database. Try these first: UOW sitestop of page
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