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Alliance of German Designers / Allianz deutscher Designer (AGD)

The Alliance of German Designers / Allianz deutscher Designer (AGD) is an independent association of professional designers., initially founded in Bremen in 1976 as the as the Arbeitskreis arbeitnehmerähnlicher Grafik-Designer. Today the AGD is open to designers working in all fields, although graphic design still predominates. The association is currently based in Braunschweig and has approximately 3,000 members. The site contains data on all the members of the AGD listed in 34 categories which include book and magazine design, catalogue design, colour design, comics and cartoons, commercial communication design, fashion design, animation, typography, calligraphy, furniture design, jewellery design, packaging design, poster design, product design, interior design, theatre design, trade fair and exhibition, and textile design.

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General tips for searching AHR net

You search AHR net in much the same as you would search Google or eBay.

You can use quotation marks to find an "exact phrase". Thus, if you want to find articles on the Arts and Crafts movement type "Arts and Crafts". This will find entries that specifically mention that term
AHR net automatically adds AND between terms. Thus, if you want to trace references to refrigerators designed by Raymond Loewy for Coldspot type Raymond Loewy refrigerator Coldspot. The string of terms can be any length
AHR net also includes a 'wild card' feature. This means that if you add an asterisk at the end of a term such as streamlin* it will find you streamline, streamlined, streamliner, and streamlining.

The AHR net Control Bar

You can use the Control Bar to switch between databases. For example, to find all the records on Birmingham in the databases, click Search, type Birmingham, and then click on the find button (or press the return key on your keyboard). AHR net will then find all the records for 'New York'. You can then click each of the tabs to find all the records containing New York in each of the databases.

Advanced Search

Using the Advanced Search screen you can narrow down your searches. For example if you want to trace profiles of female Italian furniture designers go to the Advanced Search screen of Arts+Architecture ProFiles and clear any existing search terms, click the Female only box, type Italy in the Country box, type furniture in the Subject Area box, and then click on the find button (or press the return key on your keyboard).

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Number of Abstracts: 50,707

Number of Profiles: 46,964

Number of Scanned Pages: 333,365

Number of Journals, Books, Periodicals: 1,294

– Annual: 12

– Biennial: 1

– Book: 509

– Brochure: 2

– Catalogue: 1

– Exhibition Catalogue: 3

– Journal: 127

– Magazine: 2

– Monograph: 1

– Pamphlet: 13

– Promotional brochure: 2

– Prospectus: 2

– Publicity brochure: 3

– Trade brochure: 2

– Trade Catalogue: 57

– Volume: 1