Interior Design: Visual Research

Increasing your visual "vocabulary" will help you develop design ideas.  Any sort of image can provide inspiration and sources of images are limited only by your imagination.

Any illustrated book can build your visual vocabulary.  Refer to the Find Books & Audio Visual Materials tab for more information.

These databases provide images.  Note:  unless noted, these images are protected by copyright.

♦  Artstor

     •  Contains more than two million searchable images

     •  Allows users to create an account to save images to folders - you must use your UIW e-mail to create an account

     •  See the Artstor LibGuide for more information on using this database

     •  Images in this database can be used for educational purposes only; any other use is prohibited

♦  Oxford Art Online  (this database allows for just one user at a time)

♦  Credo Reference

     •  Has an Image Search function

♦  New York Times - Historical

     •  Photographs

     •  Graphics (maps, line drawings, etc.)

     •  Advertisements

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has instituted an open access policy for images of works it believes to be in the public domain.  You can use these images without

requesting permission or paying a fee.  Look for this symbol: 

•  Metropolitan Museum of Art