Library Guides @ VIU: Interior Design: Professional/Technical Aspects of Design

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Begin your search for articles in LibrarySearch. If the results prove unsatisfactory then consider try the article databases listed here.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database with full text journal articles, including peer-reviewed titles.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This database will be particularly useful for articles on design of offices and commercial spaces and on the business aspects of design.
Business database for scholars and practitioners, providing bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracting of journal articles back as far as 1886.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Most useful for historical, philosophical, and theoretical aspects of design.
Multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive with strong retrospective coverage.
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
Use this database if you are interested in the behavioral and psychological aspects of design, places, and spaces.
PsycINFO, the American Psychological Association?s (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from periodicals in more than 27 languages.

Professional/Technical Books

Specifying interiors : a guide to construction and FF&E for residential and commercial interiors projects by McGowan, Maryrose
Call Number: TH 4311 M34 2006 (Nanaimo Stacks)

Hint: When searching the Library Catalogue for books and videos on interior design, use the term "Interior Decoration". Another useful term is "domestic architecture".

The interior designer's guide to pricing, estimating, and budgeting by Williams, Theo Stephan
Call Number: NK 2116.2 W55 2005 (Nanaimo Stacks)
Interior design visual presentation : a guide to graphics, models, and presentation techniques by Mitton, Maureen
Call Number: NK 2113.5 M58 2004 (Nanaimo Stacks)
Estimating for interior designers : [techniques for estimating materials, costs and time] by Sampson, Carol A.
Call Number: NK 2116.2 S26 2001 (Nanaimo Stacks)
Time-saver standards for interior design and space planning by De Chiara, Joseph
Call Number: NK 2110 T54 2001 (Nanaimo Stacks)

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