IвЂ™ve organised the list below into loose collections, but thereвЂ™s no particular hierarchy to them, nor to the entries within each collection. In fact, why not check out Elizabeth GoodspeedвЂ™s brilliant Casual Archivist list? Or the AIGA Design History and Resources page.ДЄnyway, I hope itвЂ™s useful, and if you have any additional resources you think should be added in, post on the Twitter thread. If youвЂ™re starting out, make sure you find other resources, other lists. ItвЂ™s an English language list, so doesnвЂ™t have the truly global scope that it could. ItвЂ™s not intended to be comprehensive вЂ“ more a starting point. It has been curated by me, and I am a middle-aged white man based in London (gay though, for what itвЂ™s worth). But great strides are being made, and as we look forwards, the industry is beginning to reflect the true diversity of society.ДЄnother caveat is that this list is not agnostic. That said, the following list still leans heavily in that direction, partly because the industry leant heavily in that direction for many, many years. WeвЂ™re at an exciting time in our industryвЂ™s history, when the established canon of graphic design is being questioned, examined, and reformed, so that itвЂ™s no longer the preserve of middle-aged straight white men. Not all of them are still being updated, but they all have rich selections of really good graphic design. I did a call out on Twitter back in June, listing the resources I was already aware of, and asking for suggestions of others, which IвЂ™ve added in to the list below. With that in mind, I thought it might be useful to pull together a list of some really great graphic design archives and resources вЂ“ mainly historical, but some contemporary. And youвЂ™re more likely to be looking at contemporary work rather than historical вЂ“ which is a bit like studying Fine Art and only being aware of work by contemporary artists.

Of course, you can find good stuff on both those platforms, but you can also find a lot of bad stuff (and an increasing amount of вЂpromotedвЂ™ paid for stuff). The problem seems to be the massive gravity of Google Image Search and Pinterest, which exerts a pull that students find hard to escape. One of the things IвЂ™ve noticed each year though is that students often struggle when it comes to finding useful places to look for inspiration when they search online.*В If youвЂ™re new to design, it can be hard to filter, to work out what you should really be looking at. ItвЂ™s a wonderful course, with great connections to industry, and some really brilliant students who regularly create exciting and energetic work. When IвЂ™m not doing graphic design stuff at We Made This, IвЂ™m an Associate Lecturer on the Graphic Design BA course at the School of Art, Architecture and DesignВ (previously named The Cass) at London Metropolitan University.

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