Art and Design News

Fact.Tv
Fact, Liverpool's centre for Film, Art and Creative Television, has just launched Fact.tv, its innovative platform of exclusive videos and interviews with artists and filmmakers. The channel also provides views of exhibition previews, tips and behind-the-scenes footage.
Link: http://www.fact.tv/

Life of a City
Produced by the Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division on their American Memory website, the Life of a City website brings together a collection of films of New York City dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. There is also background information on New York at the turn of the century to put the material shown in the films into context.
Twenty-five of the films in this collection were made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, while the remaining twenty were made by Edison Company Productions. In addition there is a selected bibliography and a selection of resources related to the collection. One can search the collection by keyword, browse the subject index or view a list of the film titles. This resource would be of interest to film historians and students concerned with the history of film.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Le Garde-Meuble
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries website provides this online edition of their run of the periodical, `Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne' (Furniture repository, ancient and modern). The Cooper Hewitt has an almost complete set of the periodical and it is the only known library collection in the United States.
This bi-monthly periodical exerted an enormous influence by promoting French styles in furniture, fabrics and interior decoration for nearly a century, from 1839. Created by furniture designer and publisher Désiré Guilmard (ca.1810-ca.1885), the periodical "consisted entirely of illustrations of designs for furniture, window treatments and room settings". The collection of nearly 400 hand coloured plates, for the period 1841 to 1851, can be browsed by style/period of furniture ranging from Directoire through to Rococo Revival and Troubadour, or by type of furniture: floor plans, window treatments, furniture-casework and seating. The plates can also be browsed by volume. Larger images are available by clicking on the thumbnails in the galleries, and this visual resource is of great value to restorers, curators, historians, and furniture designers.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/garde-meuble/

Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage
This website is a comprehensive directory of the publicly accessible sources of material related to the history of moving images and sound in the United Kingdom. It combines the former BUFVC Researcher’s Guide Online (RGO) with a new directory of artefacts produced by the UK Screen Heritage Network.
You can search for both moving image content and artefacts, as well as sound collections across the UK. The Advanced Artefacts search enables you to refine your search across ten categories including TV, Video and Digital, Animation, Film-making, Sets and Costumes, Cinema and Sound.
http://joseph.bufvc.ac.uk/rgo/index.php