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Design Image classification

A. Architecture
C. Cartography
D. Decorative arts
G. Graphic design
H. Photographic arts
I. Industrial design
L. Landscape architecture
P. Painting & drawing
S. Sculpture
T. Textile & fiber arts
Z. Materials, concepts & sets

Auxiliary tables

Art & architecture thesaurus
Cutter table for names
LC authority file
Place or site
Regions/Periods
ULAN
Views

Design Library Images Collection (Pennell-Kuhn) classification

  Class G. Graphic design

Constructing the call number

First line
  Region/Culture
  Period (Gross)
  [Place of origin] (country only [present boundaries])
Second line
  [Designer]
  Type of work
Third line
  Title of work
Fourth line
  [Date]
  [View]


Type of work

a Illustration book, magazine illustration
b Pictorial humor caricature, cartoons, comic books
c Commercial, advertising advertisements, calendars, labels, packaging, playbills
d Posters film and theater, products, political, propaganda, billboards, broadsheets
e Stamps postage stamps, first day envelopes
f Printmaking etching, wood block, lithography, wood engraving, engraving, aquatint
g Written word calligraphy, lettering, handwriting
h Typography typeface/font design, typographic design, specimen sheets, sample pages
i Electronic design computer graphics, websites, interactive media, multi-media
j Information design diagrams, charts, graphs, information systems
k Corporate identity trademarks, stationery systems, graphic identity materials, corporate publications, house organs, signage systems
m Motion graphics movie titles, on air graphics, TV, film
n Book design interior page design, cover/jacket design
p Periodical design magazine page design, magazine covers, newspaper design
q Environmental graphics signage, exhibition/installation design
r Printing technologies letterpress, offset lithography, gravure, pre-press digital
s Cards greeting cards, postcards,

Examples

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M85c
M6
Mucha, Alphonse.
Moets et Chandon/Nectar
lithograph. 1889.
gBm-US
G55d
R88
Glaser, Milton
Russian Tea Room
Jazz Concert Series
lithograph. 1960
gBh-US
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T84
Anon.
Tulley Almanac for 1699
typography. 1698
gQn-GG
D87f
A65
Durer, Albrecht
Apocalypse series.
St. John devouring the
book. etching 1525