Below are some online resources that we’ve found helpful for research, image collection, and hearing from the wider art and costume community.

Websites

https://artdepartmental.com/

https://apdg.org.au/

http://www.productionbook.com.au

https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/

https://www.setdecorators.org/

Film Stills

https://film-grab.com/

https://shot.cafe/

https://shotdeck.com/

Generate A Colour Palette

https://coolors.co/e6c2a1-fff3b0-728c57-9eb7e5-8e7dbe

Image Storing and Sorting

https://www.playbook.com/product/

Research

https://archive.org/details/michelson - Cinematic researcher Lillian Michelson’s extensive research library, now digitised and hosted by Internet Archive

https://cari.institute/ - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute

https://past.vanalen.org/archive/ - archive of architecture design

https://www.europeana.eu/en - online archive of European cultural items

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ - English Science Museum online historical collection 

http://www.costumepage.org/ - comprehensive collection of costume resources

http://www.marquise.de/en/index.html - image archive for Western clothing, Medieval to early 1900s

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ - collection of resources for 1500s and 1600s Western clothing

https://www.youtube.com/@townsends - American YouTube channel dedicated to researching and recreating the lives of people living in the 1700s and early 1800s

https://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/ - Fashion Plate Collection 1806-1915

Blogs

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/ 

http://www.artstars.us/ 

https://www.intjournal.com/ 

https://productiondesign.eu/ 

https://moviesincolor.com/ 

https://filmandfurniture.com/ 

https://thedesignersassistant.com/ 

https://costumes.org/ 

https://web.archive.org/web/20210723221707/http://clothesonfilm.com/

https://tyrannyofstyle.com/

Social Media

Facebook Groups

Art Department- Film and TV Industry

Costume Networking Group

Antique and Vintage Clothing Identification Group

Reddit

r/artdept

Instagram

@setdecinthewild

@design_in_the_wild

@themakingoffilm

Podcasts

Prop Talk- hosted by the Property Masters Guild of America

Decorating Pages- hosted by Kim Wannop, Set Decorator

Film and Furniture podcast- hosted by the Film and Furniture team

Team Deakins- hosted by Roger and James Deakins

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