The Visual Arts Data Service

January 4, 2008 7:56 PM

VADS is a resource for visual art, a huge range of things from students' work to collections of historical art and design.

I particularly liked the Bookbinders's Women's Suffrage banner and the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture

posted by paduasoy (6 comments total)

Nice find. I'll look forward to exploring this later...
posted by bullitt 5 at 10:54 PM on January 4, 2008

jade nice find!
posted by hortense at 11:01 PM on January 4, 2008

Definitely a site worthy of a post. I almost don't like VADS in a way simply because it is so vast a portal to so many different collections all over the UK. Stupid logic I agree but there you have it.
[In reality, the advantage that this portal provides is a centrally located architecture where thumbnails of all the images can be seen, without having to negotiate each specific repository]

From the Collections index I particularly like the Spellman Music Covers and the John John Johnston Trades & Professions; and from the Resources index I love the images from the 60s/70s of Design magazine.
posted by peacay at 2:43 AM on January 5, 2008

Very nice. Thanks.
posted by wafaa at 4:56 AM on January 5, 2008

Another click to "Bookmarks." Thanks.
posted by nax at 7:04 AM on January 5, 2008

As there are no listings for Thomas Chambers, Antonio Jacobsen, or EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN, I rank it low.
posted by wallstreet1929 at 8:28 AM on January 5, 2008