HISTORY OF DESIGN

A research-based library instruction16 September 2010by ADM Library

What is your objective?

To give a 10 – 20 minutes presentation about the key points of a movement related to design history (maybe?)

What is our objective?

To help you do the following (hopefully!)

LOCATE the following materials

key features of the movement place the movement within an era by identifying key

social, political, philosophical influences characteristics of objects that define the style of the

movement able to cite a list of names of designers in the

movement

Start with NTU Library Catalogue

Note down as many keywords as you can.

Start with broad terms :

“design history”“history of design”

Start with NTU Library Catalogue

Narrow it down to more specific terms (e.g. movements or groups) :

“Dada”, “Dadaist Movement”, ”WWI”

“De Stijl”, “Piet Mondrian” “Constructivism” ,”Russian

Revolution” “Bauhaus” ,”Walter Gropius”

Books on history of design? Look under call numbers beginning

with

N – art movements NK – historical periods T – design and critical culture TS – Industrial design

Books on Historical Periods / MovementsGraphic design : a new history (NC998.E75)

ADMLDesign of the 20th Century (NK1390.F463)

ADMLDesign since 1945 (NK1390.D712) ADMLThe Arts & Crafts Companion

(NK1140.T635) ADMLA History of Industrial Design (TS171.H584)

ADML, LWNLThe AZ of Modern Design (TS171.4.A989)

ADML

Books on Design Directories

Icons of graphic design (NC997.F463) LWNL

Icons of Design (TS171.I17) ADML In good shape: style in industrial

products, 1900 to 1960 (TS171.4.I35) ADML

Italian design (TS79.B744) ADMLDesign chronicles : significant mass-

produced designs of the 20th century (NK1390.G211) ADML

Books on Design and Culture

An introduction to design and culture in the twentieth century (NK1390.S736) BUSL

An introduction to design and culture: 1900 to the present (NK1390.S730N) ADML

Designing things: a critical introduction to the culture of objects (NK1505.B726) ACRC

Designing After Modernism (NK1396.P66D457) BUSL

Journal

JOURNAL of Design history

E-journals, AZ listinghttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/EJournals.aspx

Library Locations

Asian Communication and Resource Centre

(ACRC)Art, Design & Media Library (ADML)Business Library (BUSL)Lee Wee Nam Library