Art & Design and Design Databases

Letterform Archive is a non-profit museum and special collections library in San Francisco, California dedicated to collecting materials on the history of lettering, typography, printing, and graphic design.

The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to expand, diversify, and preserve graphic design history. It includes finished projects, process, correspondence, oral histories, articles, and other material in the form of images, documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.

A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.