Most Discussed
Design Archives
curated by
Louise Sandhaus
Other graphic design archives, collections, and websites that represent valuable additions to graphic design history. Some archives may not be recognized as a graphic design archive per se, but contain significant material valuable to understanding contributions to culture through their visual representation.
Diseño del Uruguay archive (Design of Uruguay online archive)
The Chinese Type Archive
The Avon Collection
Librería Urbe image collection
The Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers
Movie Title Stills Collection
Sticker collection12
Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam2
RIT Carey Graphic Arts Collection
Berman Collection 2
National Archives of Korea—postage stamps and posters collection2
Cooper Hewitt Collection
Film Art Archive: Quarterly Publications14
Punk publication archive
Graphic Design Archive West Michigan
“Famed graphic designer and racial, cultural and gender equity advocate Cheryl D. Miller donates personal archive to Stanford Libraries”
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv Archive
Collection: Design is Fine
ACT UP New York Posters and Placards Archive at New York Public Library
Afrika Bambaataa Vinyl Collection2
MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Special Collection4
Collection of the Russian Museum (The State of Russian Museum)2
Underground Newspaper Collection: 1960s Counterculture:
ACT UP New York Digital Collection
Detroit Public Library Image Collection16
The Green Book digital collection (NYPL)
Palestinian Poster Project Archive
Globe Poster Printing Corp. Collection at MICA3
Romek Marber Archive2
“Guide to the California Institute of the Arts Feminist Art Materials Collection”2
“Photographs of business signs in California collection” in California Historical Society
National Canning Museum digital archive (Portugal)5
David King archive6
New Masses magazine (1926 – 1948) digital archive
Archigram Archive
Letterform Archive
Interference Archive
CalArts Poster Archive
Visuals Music Archive3
Chicago Design Archive
Ace Zine Archive
Rave Zines archive
Ospaaal Archive
Archive: SVA
Anything That Moves online archive
Hawaii Design Archive
Poster Archive
Arabic Design Archive 2
Ebony Archive2
International Center for the Arts of the Americas: Documents of Latin American and Latino Art
HMCT Archive
leftove.rs archive
Queer. Archive. Work
San Francisco Poster Brigade Archive (SFPB)
NAGO (Dutch archive of graphic designers)2
CalArts Design Office archive
The Women’s Design + Research Unit archive
National Archives of Japan Digital Archive—National Archives of Japan
Political Posters: “All Of Us Or None” (AOUON) archive
Arabic Book Cover Archive (IG)
RIT Graphic Design Archive
Grafis Nusantra, archive of vintage Indonesian labels & stickers
The Maya Image Archive
