Update – 20 January 2016: The link to Architects’ Journal via Construction Information Service is now working again. N.B. this has only been fixed in the new CIS platform; the legacy CIS platform will be turned off on 29th January. …
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Setting the scene: perspectives on twentieth-century theatre architecture, edited by Alistair Fair Browsing the new book display, this interesting cover caught my eye. I love theatres as buildings and as places for performance. As a seasoned traveller who loves the classical …
Digital Drawing for Designers: a visual guide to AutoCAD 2015 by Douglas R. Seidler. Books in the 620s aren’t often very attractive to look at but this is an exception in being both well-designed and containing a feast of illustrations …
Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction by Cathy Whitlock and The Art Directors Guild Any book that has a film still from The Wizard of Oz is fine by me. Being a child at heart I am …
I’ve chosen this week’s book to tie in with our trial of the Material ConneXions database: Interior Design Materials and Specifications by Lisa Godsey. This book is designed to help interior designers make good decisions in selecting and specifying materials. …
Material ConneXion is on trial until 3rd November. It is a great resource for students of architecture and interior architecture and anyone looking at product design or building materials. Material ConneXion owns the world’s largest collection of unique, innovative and sustainable materials. …
Update 02/10/15 – Access to AJ has been restored. AJ is once again available directly from the link under “Industry Journals” toward the bottom of the CIS homepage. There is a technical problem with the AJ (Architects’ Journal) website preventing direct access to …
We’ve begun to build on the skills of our enquiries team with a series of masterclasses, aimed at subjects which use more specialist subject resources. The first masterclass was dedicated to architecture and led by Lizzie, the Assistant Faculty Librarian, …
Word & Image. Art, Books and Design: from the National Art Library Edited by Rowan Watson, Elizabeth James and Julius Bryant. I first saw this lovely book in the V&A bookshop and decided it was a ‘must buy’ for our …
Some of the more important information resources arriving for the arts include archives for art, architecture, fashion, and film.
