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Image databases

You may need to use images for your assignment. Here are some places you can look. However, please be very careful when using images and not violate copyright laws. Check out the Finding and Using Images guide for more information.

AdForum
Web resource for advertising industry professionals that contains advertising company profiles and ad campaigns. AdForum also provides access to professional profiles and a creative library containing the newest and best work in the industry.
The Company Profile section of AdForum contains company information for over 25,000 agencies and 9,000 production companies. The Creative Library contains over 200,000 past advertising campaign works all credited to their creators. AdForum also contains the latest advertising industry news, job information, commercials, ad campaigns, blogs, and more.
Digital Image Database
Image database maintained by the SCAD Visual Resources Center. DID contains a custom array of digitized images for the SCAD community.
The Digital Image Database (DID) contains images from prehistory through the twenty-first century in a wide range of topic categories covering all majors at SCAD. Searches can also be conducted by location, material, media, artistic movements, or artist name. In addition to published work, DID also contains student and faculty work. For help with the SCAD Digital Images Database, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.
JSTOR
Database containing full-text articles from scholarly journals and images from institutions around the world covering a variety of subjects.
JSTOR includes digitized articles from back issues of academic journals as well as book chapters, ebooks, abstracts, and primary sources from the humanities and social sciences. For help using JSTOR, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.

Directories of designers

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Call Number: NC997 .L54 2012

ISBN: 9780500204139
Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 by Bartelsheim (Text by); Ute Brüning (Text by)
Call Number: NK1174 .W67 2012

ISBN: 9783868591538

Online resources for designer biographies

Finding Images and Inspiration Online

The following online image resources are free and publicly accessible:

Sites offer copyright-free images or open license images for reuse.

Getty Open Content
Public domain art images from Getty collections.
NGA Images (National Gallery of Art)
Includes 20,000+ open access digital images, available free of charge for download and use.
Pexels
Free stock images and video browsable by color and collection.
Pixabay
1.9+ million royalty-free stock images with the ability to discover images by category and color.
Unsplash
Over a million high-resolution images to search and browse, from animals to textures to fashion.
Wikimedia Commons
Millions of high-resolution images of art, architecture, design, and more.
Yale University Digital Commons
Images from several museums and collections. Item records indicate when an image is public domain and available for open access and fee-free use.

Freeimages
Exchange for using and contributing free stock images.
MorgueFile Free Photos
Public image archive for creative work
Raw Pixel
Royalty-free stock images as well as high resolution public domain images available for creative reuse.

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Directories of designers

Online resources for designer biographies

Finding Images and Inspiration Online