Reference

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Textures: One of the best aspects of the internet is sites like these. A huge collection of really beautiful textures from Paul Bourke an Australian astronomer. Handy for lots of applications and he doesn't mind you using them.

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ADAM: The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.
The Art History Research Centre: A useful starting point for research.
Artifact: "The guide to quality Internet resources in the Arts and Creative Industries."
Art Resources: Superficially brief list of links to online Art Resources, but those resources contain huge numbers of further links.
Basearts: Essentially just someone else's links page. But it's a very eclectic and interesting collection.
Finding images online: Paula Berinsten's very good list of places where you can find images online.
Mark Harden's Artchive: Huge collection of scanned images of the work of famous artists.
Mother: The mother of all Art and Art History links pages, a huge collection of links from the University of Michigan.
Voice of the Shuttle: Massive colection of links to online data on the "humanities" in general including quite a bit on Art and Design. Also includes a section on the "Laws of Cool", links to cool sites and ideas on "coolness".

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Ava Books: Mainly graphic design books.
Focal Press: Good quality practical guides to all aspects of photography, film, video, sound etc.
Friends of ED: Specialist in advanced software tutition and experimentation.
New Riders: How to do it and good examples of creative software in action.
Niggli: Classic works of graphic design and architecture.
Peachpit Press: Excellent practical guides to the use software packages of all types.
Phaidon: Leading Art, Design, Photography and Architecture publisher.
Rotovision
Routledge
Taschen
Vertical: The latest Japanese books and graphic novels in English.