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Google has been hiding things from you. Good things, no less. Take a quick tour of three of Google’s best kept secrets, from its vaults of art images to its library of the world’s constitutions translated into English, to a tool shows you how many people searched for what and when.

Flier for the Kips Bay Boys Club Hip Hop event held 13 February 1982. Designed by graphic designer Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King").

Explore African-American art, history and heritage in images this Black History Month with these free and licensed images available through Artstor and JSTOR Collections.

Artstor contains over 2.5 million images on a wide range of subjects.  You can use any of these images for assignments (lecturers can also use them for teaching and research (provided they are used behind a password, e.g. in Moodle).  If …

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Pic Collage is a free photo editor and collage creation app useful for creating and annotating field trip photo albums, drawing and adding text to mark important features, research and illustrate design concepts, and even create visually appealing infographics and conference or …

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You may remember that I went to the ARCLIB, Architecture Librarians’ Conference recently? As well as networking with colleagues bringing back new ideas for projects and having fun (…not too much) we also share information about interesting resources that are …

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Here’s something to make your weekend.  Our year of free art continues, with the British Library following the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in releasing millions of images free for anyone to use online under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) …

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Pic Collage is a free photo editor and collage creation app useful for creating and annotating field trip photo albums, drawing and adding text to mark important features, research and illustrate design concepts, and even create visually appealing infographics and conference or …

Visual thinking, visual learning Read more »

Problems have been reported opening ARTSTOR images from within the Discovery Service.  This problem has been caused by the pop-up blocker on university computers preventing these images from being opened.  This will be remedied for all PCs on campus within …

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20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads by Jim Heimann (editor) and Alison A. Nieder (text) This week I chose a book on fashion; a subject I have not covered before.  During the 20th century, fashion evolved from being …

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