Includes data on designers, studios, firms, and lists articles, news items, conference and seminar reports, reviews of books, video, film, exhibitions, and illustrations. It also provides internet links to web sites on design and applied arts. The print version is published twice a year, but the online version is updated quarterly, with coverage from 1973 to the present. The primary scholarly index to the world's literature in art, architecture, and related fields. Contains abstracted references to books, articles from more than 4,000 international journals, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, microfilm publications, collected essays, and illustrations.
Citations come from holdings of major libraries in Europe and America.
Print version covers from 1991 to 1998. Online updates are monthly. Continued by BHA, from 1991 on. Online search is included in BHA online. General periodical indexes cover popular magazines and newspapers and a few general art and design magazines.