Open Educational Resources (OER): Creative Arts

By Kristine Miller, Ph.D.
Creative Commons Attribution

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.

This book was written by two artist educators who teach digital art and design studio foundation classes. This book is a mash-up of the Bauhaus Basic Course and an overview of open source software such as Inkscape, Gimp, Firefox, and Processing.

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

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

MIT Open Courseware
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

Europeana is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage. This collection contains drawings and photographs of clothing.

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.

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.

Digital Collection. Many of these plates are from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century.