Research Guides: Production Design: Images

Image Resources for Production Design at SCAD

Berg Fashion Library
Encyclopedia addressing fashion, dress and textiles from a wide range of cultures and time periods.
Berg Fashion Library is a leading academic source providing reference entries, images, and ebooks for fashion, textiles, and cultural studies research. For help navigating Berg Fashion Library, visit How to Use.
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.
WGSN
Trend forecasting platform that provides industry and trade show reports as well as trends, forecasting, consumer profiles, and market intelligence across the following sector channels: Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Consumer Tech, and City by City.

Images for Inspiration and Moodboards
Find legal, high-quality images to use in your process books, mood boards, and designs.

Image Resources for Production Design Online

Victoria & Albert Museum - Costume Collection
Spanning five centuries, our Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dress in the world. Key items in the collection include rare 17th century gowns, 18th century ‘mantua’ dresses, 1930s eveningwear, 1960s daywear and post-war couture.
V&A - Search the Collections
Advanced search options e.g by Object name/Title, Artist/maker or Material/techniques

The MET Costume Institute
Images of costumes and accessories from the fifteenth century to the present. The MET allows use of their images for "limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only." For more information visit the MET's Terms of Use webpage: (http://www.metmuseum.org/information/terms-and-conditions)
Search the (Costume Institute) Collections
Advanced search options within the Costume Institute collections, including who, what, where & when.

Smithsonian Institution: Collections Search Center
Online repository of articles, images, videos, sound files, and other resources from the Smithsonian Institutes museums, archives, and libraries.

FIDM
The museum is located on the ground floor of the Los Angeles campus of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and houses a collection of over 12,000 costumes, accessories and textiles from the 18th century through the present day, including film and theater costume.

Europeana
Online hub for digitized content, such as ebooks, music, and artwork from thousands of European cultural institutions.
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to share cultural heritage resources for enjoyment, education, and research purposes. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks, and more with easy-to-use search and filter tools. For more information about using Europeana, visit Europeana Help.