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Useful Periodicals in Graphic Design

Print copies of periodicals are displayed in alphabetical order in the Library.
To access online journals, click on the title or go to our e journals listing at:
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Access by Design
Access by Design is the UK's leading quarterly publication on inclusive design. The journal regularly
features design sheets, building studies, updates on legislation and case law, reports on current
research and book reviews.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 2003) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Amateur Photographer (Print only)
Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest consumer weekly photographic magazine, first hitting
the newsstands in 1884. Since then, AP has been the bible for both amateur and professional photoenthusiasts around the world. It has helped generations of photographers to improve their skills.

Availability: Hard copy print only (kept for 2 years)

AN Magazine
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Lively, topical news, reviews, features and debate around the environments for visual arts practice.

Availability: Hard copy print (2005 - 2012) Online, on campus only via www.a-n.co.uk
Art Book
The Art Book, a quarterly magazine, offered lively and informative reading for a broad art
community, and whose last edition was in 2010. Each issue contained reviews of at least 50 book
and exhibition catalogues and interviews with leading figures in the art world.

Availability: Online Full Text (1997 - 2010)

Art History
The journal of the Association of Art Historians provides original research relating to all aspects of
the historical and theoretical study of painting, sculpture, architecture, design and visual culture.

Availability: Hard copy print (1989 - 2009) and Online Full Text (PDF)

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Artnews (Print only)

ARTnews reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art
world. The magazine offers a lively, provocative, and visually stimulating package that informs as
well as entertains, with news dispatches from a worldwide network of correspondents, hard-hitting
investigative reports, criticism, and opinion.

Availability: Microfilm (1900 - 1972) and Hard copy print (ongoing from 1973)
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Blueprint (Print only)
The leading magazine for architecture and design, Blueprint is regarded as the original design
magazine, described by The Observer newspaper as the design bible. It is produced in large format
on the best quality paper, with photography and illustration of the highest standard.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1998)

British Journal of Photography
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Established in 1854 and re-launched as a monthly in 2010, BJPs focus has shifted from news-driven
content to the creative impetus of professional photography. Each issue features profiles of
emerging talent alongside star names, a picture-led Portfolio section, business analysis and detailed
technology reviews.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1968) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Cinefex (Print only)
Cinefex is a quarterly professional movie special effects magazine. Within its pages can be found
lengthy and detailed articles about special effects (both physical and CGI) in upcoming films,
interviews with the people involved and coupled with extensive behind-the-scenes photographs.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2010)

Communication Arts
Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communications. The
magazines coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive
media. CA publishes six issues a year and hosts six creative competitions in graphic design,
advertising, photography, illustration, typography and interactive media.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1997) and Online Full Text (PDF)
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Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds is the first journal to address the global thematic of the
Virtual Worlds. This thematic has been subdivided into 6 areas: computer animation, embodied
agents, virtual environments, augmented reality, virtual life and visualization.

Availability: Hard copy print (2004 - 2010) and Online Full Text (PDF)

Computer Arts (Print only)

CA is the art, design and technology magazine for Mac and PC. It is the world's best-selling magazine
for digital artists and designers. It boasts a strong line-up of tutorials every issue, covering everything
from manipulating photographs with Photoshop to creating vector illustrations with Illustrator.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1997)

Computer Arts Project / Computer Arts Collection (Print only)

Computer Arts Project provides tutorials, news, and reviews for users of Photoshop, Illustrator,
Flash, Dreamweaver, and other leading graphics software. Computer Arts Collection superseded this
title and launched in December 2011, providing a guide to the core creative fields of: Graphic Design,
Typography, Illustration, Branding, Photography and Advertising.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2003)

Creative Review
The aim of Creative Review is to inspire, inform and stimulate debate among our readers in graphic
design, advertising, digital media, illustration, photography and all other fields of visual
communication worldwide.

Availability: Hard copy print (copies kept for 5 years) and Online Full Text
Design Issues
Design Issues is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to examine design history, theory, and
criticism. The journal includes theoretical and critical articles, book reviews, and illustrations.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 2007) and Online Full Text (PDF)

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Design Journal
Established in 1998, The Design Journal is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of
design. It provides a forum for design scholars, professionals, educators and managers worldwide.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1998) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Design Studies
Design Studies is the only journal to approach the understanding of design from comparisons across
all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural design and
planning, computer artefacts and systems design.

Availability: Hard copy print (1998 - 2006) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Design Week
A business publication, aimed at readers from commercial design disciplines ranging from retail,
products and packaging to graphics, interiors & exhibitions. The magazine went solely digital in 2011.

Availability: Hard copy print (2007 - 2011) and Online Full Text (PDF)

Digital Arts (named Digit from 1999 - 2007) (Print only)

Digital Arts provides comprehensive coverage of the art of graphic design, 3D, animation, video, web

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Availability: Hard copy print only (from 1999)

Domus: architecture, design, art, communication (Print only)
Conceived and founded in 1928 by Gio Ponti, Domus is the most respected international review of
architecture and design. It is an indispensable tool for all design professionals.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1960)

The Drum (Print only)

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The Drum England Magazine is a respected voice of above & below-line- advertising, design, PR,
media and new media.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2010)

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Eye
Eye is the world's most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published quarterly for
professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic
design and visual culture.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1996) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Flash Art International
Flash Art, the landmark contemporary art magazine founded by Giancarlo Politi and co-edited by
Helena Kontova, is more dynamic and transgressive than ever. Each issue the magazine features
articles and interviews on new and emerging artists, who may one day be the stars of the
contemporary art market.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1998) and Online Full Text (PDF)
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Frame Magazine is the international review of interior architecture and design. It is a bimonthly
trade magazine which focuses on cutting-edge corporate and public interiors, and especially on
retail, exhibition, hospitality and workplace design.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2000)

frieze: contemporary art and culture (Print only)
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Frieze is the leading magazine in contemporary art and culture. frieze profiles emerging artists and
highlights new currents in art practice as well as offering a fresh perspective on more established
artists. Frieze includes exhibition reviews, interviews, city reports and worldwide listings.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1993)

FX: Design, Business and Society (Print only)
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FX has been heralded as the most successful magazine ever for the contract industry. Over the past
two decades it has become the market leader in worldwide contract interior design.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1999)

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Grafik : Journal of the best in international graphic design (Print only)

Grafik is a specialist London-based bi-monthly magazine on graphic design and visual culture.
Regular features include reviews of notable design events and exhibitions, showcases of emerging
and established talent, critical viewpoints and special reports, often covering a piece of design
history. The magazine has now ceased publication.

Availability: Hard copy print only (2003 until publication ceased in 2010)
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Grafis (Print only)
Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communication, was first published in 1944, presenting
the work of fine artists and illustrators, as well as highlighting the formative years of graphic design
as we know it today. Advertising and photography were also featured. The magazine was
discontinued after Issue #355 and focus was then devoted to further improving the Graphis Annuals.

Availability: Microfilm (1944 - 1968) and Hard copy print (1990 - 2005). The Graphis Design,
Photography and Advertising Annuals are all available in Thompson Library book stock.
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Icon Magazine (Print only)
Features interviews with the most exciting architects and designers in the world, visits the best new
buildings, analyses the most interesting new cultural movements and technologies, and reviews an
eclectic range of exhibitions, books, products and films.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2010)

ID Magazine (Print only)
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i-D built its reputation on being a consistent source of inspiration in fashion culture. It began as a
fanzine dedicated to the street style of punk-era London in 1980, and quickly earned its position at
the vanguard of fashion and style, abiding by the premise of originate dont imitate.

Availability: Hard copy print only

Idea Magazine (Print only)
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Idea is an international graphic art and typography magazine from Japan. Features anime, Manga,
book illustration and design.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1982)

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Journal of Design History

JDS is the journal of the Design History Society, playing an active role in the development of design
history, including crafts and applied arts, as well as the studies of visual and material culture.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1995) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is a peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of the
graphic novel, comic strip and comic book, with the emphasis on comics in their cultural,
institutional and creative contexts.

Availability: Online Full Text (PDF)

(ongoing from 2010)

MacUser (Print only)

Aimed at Mac users in the design sector, each fortnight the magazine brings the reader up-to-date
with news, reviews, Masterclass tutorials and technical advice. Recent features have covered new
developments by Quark and Adobe in creating iPad magazines, benchmark tests of the MacBook Pro
and MacBook Air laptops, and group tests of personal colour laser printers.

Availability: Hard copy print only (kept for 2 years)

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Macworld
Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products.
Macworld includes reviews, guides to using new features and in-depth advice.

Availability: Hard copy print only (kept for 2 years) and Online Full Text (PDF)

Mad (Print only)

Mad is an American humour magazine founded in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became

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magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire
cultural landscape of the 20th century. The magazine offers satire on all aspects of life and popular
culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2011)

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Marie Claire Ideas (Print only)

Marie Claire Ideas focuses on fashion and beauty issues, career success, and each issue includes
easy-to-follow instructions for a wide range of crafts and projects. Published in the French language.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2005)

Marketing Week
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to you by a team of expert columnists and special correspondents. It features hundreds of job
opportunities, as well as special focuses, case studies and surveys.

Availability: Hard copy print (copies kept for 3 years) and Online Full Text
Modern Painters
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from painting and sculpture to photography, film, architecture, design, and performance. The
oversized pages are visually dynamic, full of artwork by some of the most exciting talents working
today, much of it previously unseen.

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Availability:
Hard copy print (ongoing from 1989) and Online Full Text (PDF)
New Design (Print only)
New Design magazine reports on the latest design thinking, techniques and trends. The core focus is
on product and industrial design but it also covers a varied range of topics and themes
encompassing: interiors, corporate id, graphics, materials, software & digital design.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2001)

Novum (Print only)
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novum may be turning 80, but it still maintains a position as one of the few design magazines
graphic designers and students throughout the world eagerly turn to for inspiration and that is just
as much true today as it was in the 1920s.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1995)

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Portfolio: The Catalogue of Contemporary British Photography (Print only)

Portfolio featured photography by an international range of established and emerging artists, with
reviews of the most significant exhibitions and books. It is an indispensable source of reference for
anyone with a passion for photography or an academic interest in the subject.

Availability: Hard copy print only (1994 until publication ceased in 2010)

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Print portfolios, profiles, regional design, thematic issues, computer advances, historical perspective
and provocative articles in all areas of the field of graphic design for designers, illustrators and
photographers worldwide.

Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1990) and Online Full Text (PDF)
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Print Quarterly (Print only)
Print Quarterly is dedicated to the art of the print from its origins in the fifteenth century to the
present. It publishes recent scholarship on a wide range of topics, including printmakers,
iconography, social and cultural history, popular culture, print collecting, decorative prints, and
techniques such as engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography and digital printmaking.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1993)

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Up! (Print only)
A quarterly magazine about glass, which built an international bridge between the world of glass art
and other art, including design and architecture.

Availability: Hard copy print only (2001 until publication ceased in 2006)
Typographic (Print only)
TypoGraphic is the journal of the international Society of Typographic Designers. It provides a forum

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for constructive critical debate on typography and graphic communication; each issue includes
themed discussions by leading designers and educators. Published since 1971 under various editors,
it has chronicled the most dynamic three decades of typographic development.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1972)

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Varoom - the Journal of Illustration and Made Images (Print only)

What connects uptown fashion and downtown street art? Retail packaging and computer games?
The beginning of the 21st Century finds illustration as its animating art form, whether it's the reemergence of craft, the mainstreaming of Street Art or the buzz around the animated movie .
Varoom tracks and explores the work, the ideas and the people behind this flowering of creativity.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 2006)

Visual Communication
Communication is a quarterly, peer-reviewed academic journal publishing top research in visual
studies. Articles cover still and moving images; graphic design and typography; visual phenomena
such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction; the built and landscaped environment;
and the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound and action.

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Availability: Online Full Text (PDF)
Wallpaper (Print only)
International, intelligent and influential, Wallpaper* magazine is at the cutting edge of design and
style. Renowned for its beautiful, inspiring features, it is the leading authority on international
architecture, design, fashion and lifestyle.

Availability: Hard copy print only (ongoing from 1998)

Word and Image
Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues, and mutual collaboration
(or hostility) between verbal and visual languages. It provides a forum for articles that focus
exclusively on the special study of the relations between words and images from all historical

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perspectives, both theoretical and practical.
Availability: Hard copy print (ongoing from 1998) and Online Full Text (PDF)
Print copies of periodicals are displayed in alphabetical order in the Library.
To access online journals, click on the title or go to our e journals listing at:
http://rh5pp9fz2b.search.serialssolutions.com/

Eleanor Johnston and Debbie Roberts March 2013