Graphic Design - Resources to use from home

People In The Field

• This list of graphic designers offers brief biographies as well as example of their work
• This list offers "20 of today's most influential graphic designers to follow"
• Experience the work of San Diego City College Graphic Design Students

Professional Organizations and Websites

• American Institute of Graphic Arts: "As the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design—with more than 70 chapters and more than 15,000 members—we advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force"
• Pantone "provides a universal language of color that enables color-critical decisions through every stage of the workflow for brands and manufacturers"

Terminology

• University of Texas Arlington offers this Design Glossary
• Georgia Tech offers this 3D Graphics terminology

For City College Students: Access databases containing articles from newspapers, magazines, and peer-reviewed scholarly journals through our home page.

• Click on A-Z Databases
• Scroll down for a quick look at the topics in each database. Ebsco’s Academic Search Complete is a robust database with articles on just about everything and is often a good place to start.
• Some databases include articles from journals magazines and newspapers as well as books.  If you are unsure what kind of resource you have, ask us on 24/7 chat on our home page or ask your instructor.
• The databases that say they include “scholarly or peer reviewed” resources may also contain popular resources.  If so, it is likely you will find a way to limit to either the scholarly/peer reviewed sources or the popular sources.
• Choose a database and use its Advance Search
• Use your topic terms and alternative terms when searching.  For example, try
  • "graphic design* AND font*
  • design AND typeface*

Specific Databases of Interest (Access these and explore the 65+ other databases such as and JStor and Academic Search Complete via the A-Z databases link on the library's home page.)

• Oxford Art Online: Grove Art 
• Vocation and Career Collection

E-Books from our Library catalog

To search for e-books in City College Library Catalog, start on our home page.

• Click Advanced Search
• Click SDCCD Books+
• Type in your search term(s) like "graphic design*"; typeface; Pantone
• Press SEARCH
• Now Refine your Search Results appears in the left column
• Click on Available Online

NOTES

• Print books are also accessed via the process above.  To find print books, note the campus (City, Mesa or Miramar) and the call number.  Feel free to ask a librarian for help.
• Do NOT refine your search by clicking on City College.  This seems to omit many books to which you have access
• FYI your username is your 10 digit ID number and your password is your last name.

Videos and Clips

Just a few examples of what you will find in Films on Demand:

• Sustainability Considerations in Design examines the art of conceiving and creating physical products according to ecologically sound principles.
• Graphic Design: What's in a logo
• Managing a Design Project

Access to City College streaming videos, including Films on Demand, is through our home page.

• Click on A-Z Databases
• Scroll down to Films on Demand, Swank, National Theatre Collection, Kanopy, or Film Platform.
• Films on Demand provides access to video collection for over 38,500 full-length videos and 310,000+ video clips in a variety of subject areas.  
• Swank provides access to over 290 feature films from major Hollywood studios and producers.
• If on campus, you may view DVDs in the Library.  Find the DVD you want via our catalog, SDCCD Books+, on the home page.  Pick up the DVD from the Circulation Counter and take it to R105 (downstairs) to view.  Faculty can take DVDs home for a week.

Get Help San Diego City College LIBRARY Home Page

For simple questions about the library, email us at citylib@sdccd.edu

Get help finding the books and articles you need via 24/7 chat or set up an in-person or zoom one-on-one or small groups with a librarian.

When open, come by the City College Library (R Building) and discuss what you need with a faculty-librarian at the Information Desk (reference).  Or call us at 619-388-3288.

Learn how to do research.  From the Library's homepage, click on Research Guides and then scroll down to

• Research Step-By-Step  or
• Information Literacy: Basic Research Skills (a free OER text book)