Open Educational Resources (OER)

A website with images, videos, and information about art from Prehistoric sculptures to 20th century Architecture.

Public domain images from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art Appreciation thoroughly investigates how quality is determined and created by artists in order to evaluate and appreciate art on a deeper level. Students are first introduced to the elements and principles of art and then different periods in art history, different techniques in art, and how to research and evaluate art.

Look At This! is designed to help you approach and appreciate the visual arts wherever you find them. It explains how artists use the visual elements of their work to create moods and effects, teaches you how to break down complex images into their parts, and gives an overview of major themes in art.

Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship and over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.

Part textbook, part shared knowledge, this book is the co-creation of the instructor and students of Red Deer Polytechnic's ART 305, 19th Century European Art History class.

Understanding New Media Art is an OER for introductory college art and art history courses that builds on scholarship in the field to propose a long historical context for the technologies and ideas related to New Media Art in the 21st century.

Where Does Art Come From? focuses on global arts and culture for the UTA core curriculum art history introductory course ART 1317 “Arts of Africa, Asia, Islam, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas.”

Syllabus, assignments, and readings for a course on Asian Art History.

This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient.

A compilation of all Smarthistory resources on Greek art, compiled as a pdf and print version.

A compilation of all Smarthistory resources on Roman art, compiled as a pdf and print version.

Although focused on the needs of K-12 instructors, these resources from the Metropolitan Museum of Art provide useful overviews of ancient art from around the world.

A peer-populated platform for art history teachers, AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.

This glossary contains over 250 key terms and is illustrated with more than 100 images. A few of the key terms are repeated to give a different context to the term with each use.

This textbook addresses different aspects of the design process, from creation to production. Each chapter includes exercises and suggested readings.

This book was developed in an attempt to maintain in one location the information and references that point to the many important historical developments of the short life of the computer graphics world as we know it.

Introduction to Computer Graphics is a free, online textbook covering the fundamentals of computer graphics and computer graphics programming.

The purpose of this book is to serve as a reference for a one-semester course in digital photography for graphic communications.

This book aims to narrate fundamental concepts of structural design to architecture students such that they have minimum involvement with math problem-solving.

This book is for the beginning level of both architecture and interior design students who learn computer graphic communication software. The author developed multiple tutorials to teach three computer graphic applications, AutoCAD, Revit, and Enscape.

This book is for advanced-level architecture and interior design students who have in-depth knowledge and skills with computer-aided visualization software.

This resource includes step-by-step image and video tutorials for an interior design project using computer-aided design software.

This book offers a web-based multimedia platform to enable students in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Engineering to learn fundamentals of BIM using Revit and be able to create building architectural, mechanical and structural models, develop construction documentation and analyze building performance.

The book goes beyond the surface to explain why AECO digitization matters with respect to information. It presents information in the framework of representation, introduces a semantic typology of data and connects process to information management, towards a coherent and transparent theory of building information for the digital era.

Bringing together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation, Fabricate is a triennial international conference, now in its third year (ICD, University of Stuttgart, April 2017). Each year it produces a supporting publication, to date the only one of its kind specialising in Digital Fabrication.

Introduction to Design Equity, an open access book for students and professionals, maps design processes and products against equity research to highlight the pitfalls and potentials of design as a tool for building social justice.

Business Communications for Fashion is designed to guide college students in Fashion programs to develop the business communication skills that are necessary in today's workplace and learn how to communicate in a clear, concise, and effective way.

This textbook was created by faculty at the University of Minnesota College of Desig and the University of California for two classes: Fashion Trends and Communication and Trend Research and Forecasting in Design. These classes are required for product and apparel designers, but are also taken by students in other topical areas such as journalism, retail, marketing, and business.

This book introduces topics about identity, dress, and the body. Through the content, readers explore how individuals and communities use dress as a way to communicate their various identities.

This instructional text and designer resources have been prepared to support those learning about adaptive apparel design, and is organized around the apparel design process: research, sketching, developing a sample notebook, mood or inspiration board, pattern work, first sample, and the completed ensemble.

This text includes important concepts and techniques in beginning apparel production, with graphics and videos to help guide you through each step of this workbook.

This open-source learning resource contains details and step-by-step instructions, supported with images, videos, and text.

This book provides an introduction to sustainability. It introduces sustainability within the context of systems thinkin gand explores the relationships between these different areas within the frame of specific sustainability challenges and topics.

Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such 'meta-goods' (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, ideals and desires such as values and symbols of social recognition, beautification and rejuvenation.

The purpose of this project is to document the history of each brand using the oral history method. We conducted oral histories with 24 brands with questions ranging from their own personal histories to how and why they started the brand.

Hosted by the University Library Digital Collections, the Fashion Plates collection (1776-2003) contains plates of general fashion dating back to the 18th century and continuing through the 20th century.