Interior Design : Design & Decorative Arts

Excerpts from the upcoming book, Significant Mass-Produced Products of the 20th Century, by Carroll M. Gantz. From the Industrial Design Society of America.

Database of international links to a wide variety of art and design based industries, organisations and resources.

Interactive tutorial covering line, color, space, shape, balance, and movemen/rhythym.

Explores how new technologies, materials, and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.

Resource for modern, post-modern and contemporary design of the 20th-21st centuries where you'll find information on designers and producers, on furniture, lighting, dinnerware, accessories, glass, ceramic, plastic, wood and metalware.

Collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.

Exhibition programming supports the textile, apparel and interior design programs of the Environment, Textiles, and Design department in the UW Madison School of Human Ecology.

Art and design of less traditionally studied cultures as well those interested in issues of globalisation, cultural diversity and difference.

Database of online images to support the study of design of living environments (including landscape; exteriors and interiors; furniture; household objects; textiles, and decorative, personal and ritual objects).

"Consists of approximately 18,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century." Includes furniture, metalwork, textiles and folk art.

Over 250 objects from six major movements represented: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Wiener Werkstätte, de Stijl, Bauhaus and Art Deco. From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Costume, design, and textiles are strongly represented.

Collection of websites and images on design, architecture, fashion and more from the 20th century.

Shareware to design your room or apartment, plan gardens and more. Older version is freeware.