DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. An indispensable tool for students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide, DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture. As of March 2006, DAAI contains more than 150,000 records, with around 1200 new records added each month in twice-monthly updates.

Subject Coverage

Major areas of coverage include:

Product design
Interior design
Graphic design
Ceramics
Glass
Jewellery
Textiles
Furniture
Fashion and clothing
Illustration
Typography and type design
Metalsmithing
Retail design
Architecture
Industrial design
Sustainability
Advertising
Packaging
Theatre
Vehicles
Exhibitions
Book design
Web design
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Animation
Garden design
Landscape architecture
Urban design
Education
Design management
Inclusive design
Universal design
Design history

Dates of Coverage

1973 - current

Update Frequency

Twice per month, with 600 records added per update.

Size

Over 166,548 records as of February 2007

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Sample Record

TI:	Title Tipografia y cartografia/Typography and cartography
AU:	Author Arnold, Felix
SO:	Source tipoGráfica, vol. 19, pt. 5, no. 69, pp. 8-15, Dec. 2005-March 2006
SA:	Subject/Artist
AB:	Abstract Swiss typographer Felix Arnold looks at typography in the context of map-making, highlighting the potential for new creative input by typographers. The article contains a brief history of lettering for cartography, comments on the currently available cartographic fonts, and delineates the differences between cartographic and text composition. Arnold specifies nine criteria that cartographic typefaces should meet and then discusses the merits of Cisalpin, a font created specifically for cartography.
FE:	Feature 2 illus. (1 colour) + 17 maps, + 8 figs, bibliog
LA:	Language Spanish; English
PY:	Publication Year 2006
PT:	Publication Type Article
UD:	Update 20060303
AN:	Accession Number 00413025

Browsable Indexes

A browsable index is an alphabetical listing of terms used in a specific field of a database. You can browse this list to see, for example, the names of journals indexed in Design and Applied Arts Index. Browsable Indexes are available for the following fields:

Author
Journal Name
Publication Type
Subject/Artist

Field Codes

The following field codes are used and searchable in the records currently being added to this database. Here they are listed in alphabetical order by two-letter code. For further information on these fields, .

AB = Abstract
AN = Accession Number
AU = Author
IS = ISSN
LA = Language
PT = Publication Type
PY = Publication Year
SA = Subject/Artist
SL = Summary Language
SO = Source
TI = Title
UD = Update

Features , FE=
Indicates the number and in some cases type of illustrations (e.g. floorplans) in the article, and whether the article includes a bibliography or biographical panel.

Keywords, KW= A keyword search searches the Title, Abstract, and Subject/Artist fields.

Journal Issue, JI=
Journal Name, JN=
Journal Pages, JP=
Journal Supplement, JS=
Journal Volume, JV=
These fields all display in records as part of the Source (SO) field.

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