Open Educational Resources (OER): Fine Arts and Design

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.

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.

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.

Public domain texts related to art and art studies from Project Gutenberg.

Youtube videos addressing Art, Architecture, Theater, Dance, Cinema, and other topics in the arts.

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.

This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context.

This short open course demonstrates how the study of safe design and the assessment of components and structures under load is of increasing importance in engineering design. The documents can be downloaded in multiple formats for use.

This course covers the basic principles of elastic behavior for different materials such as wood, steel, concrete, and composite materials and compares the properties and applications of materials generally.

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.

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

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.

This textbook serves as an introduction to Music History with clear but abbreviated information about musical vocabulary, instruments and ensembles, European music, American music, World music, and musicians. It is recommended as a basic introductory text.

Published by Rice University, this text significantly expands upon "Introduction to Music Theory", but only covers the bare essentials. Music is a very large subject, and the advanced theory that students will want to pursue after mastering the basics will vary greatly.

The purpose of this text is to provide guidance for individuals or groups in designing and carrying out music-learning inquiries that are tailored to the educational goals, learning style, cultural background, musical knowledge, and interests of the individual learners.

This text contains overviews of various basic theories for Music Appreciation. It is recommended for music courses tailored for students pursuing music education.