Interior Design

• Selected Print Resources
• Online Resources
• Citation and Style Guides

• Web Resources
• Associations
• Blogs & News

Other Kwantlen Library Subject Guides that may be of interest to Interior Design students:
Fine Arts | Fashion Design | Graphic Design | FIND

New Interior Design Books

Subject Headings

Search for books using the Library Catalogue or try these following sample subject headings:

• Architectural drawing
• Architecture modern
• Color in interior decoration
• Computer-Aided design
• Decoration and ornament
• Design decorative
• Design history
• Furniture
• House furnishings
• Interior architecture
• Interior decorators
• Lighting architectural and decorative
• Mechanical drawing
• Textile fabrics in interior decoration

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

NA Architecture
NK 1700- Interior decoration, house decoration
T 351-385 Mechanical drawing
TA 401-492 Materials of engineering and construction
TH 1-9745 Building construction
TX 301-339 The house, its arrangement, care, etc.

Primary Indexes & Databases for Interior Design

• Art Index
• ARTstor
• extensive image collection -examples
  Bauhaus interior furnishings
• Architecture and the Built Environment guide
• Oxford Art Online

Other Useful Indexes Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online.

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs CBCA (Business)
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• JSTOR

• Both Print and Electronic For print versions you will find the phrase "Kwantlen Polytechnic University Print Journals after the title and a notation stating which campus it is on. The titles of the electronic versions are followed by a link to the article index which will open the journal directly.
• Abitare: Italian design journal
  
• Print Journals available at Richmond Library
  
  TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide

Web Resources

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online - dictionary of terminology
• Built in America: collection of more than 35,000 drawings, photographs and histories of structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
• Canadian Architecture Collection - click on "digital collections" for images of the work of such Canadian architects as Moshe Safdie and Arthur Erickson
• Design Addict - 20th/21st century design information on designers and products
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
• Great Buildings Collection- drawings, photographs, and commentary on over 750 noteworthy buildings around the world
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - Timeline of Art History - period rooms. There are many other examples of architectural elements and styles available - search by subject.

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you

• BLDGBLOG
• Paper Lily
• Apartment Therapy
• Surroundings
• Design*Sponge
• poppytalk

Citations

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Kwantlen's Citation Page

• Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia (IDIBC)
• Interior Designers of Canada
• International Interior Design
• Careers in Interior Design
• American Institute of Architects
• American Society of Interior Designers
• Architecture.com - official home page of the Royal Institute of British Architects
• British Interior Design Association
• Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER)
• National Council for Interior Design Qualifications
• Interior Design Educators Council
• Center for the Built Environment