Design ProFILES (DP), like its sister publication, Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), is an ongoing project. It covers the same subject fields as DAR and is by far and away the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of design and designers ever compiled. It includes profiles of every single designer, architect, craftsperson, studio, workshop, etc. whose work is discussed or illustrated in the journals and yearbooks covered by DAR.

Update frequency

Quarterly

Size

Over 22,000 records, as of November 2011, with 5,000 records added annually

Among subjects covered:

• Advertising
• Architecture
• Book Design
• Calligraphy
• Ceramics
• Fashion
• Furniture Design
• Glass Art and Design
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design
• Jewelry
• Metalsmithing
• Packaging
• Photography
• Poster Design
• Textile Design
• Theatre Design
• Typography

Features of DP

• Every entry is uniquely researched, and in some cases based on interviews and material    submitted by the designers

• Designers are identified by gender

• Includes supplementary bibliographies

• Contains numerous Web links

• Constantly updated and revised

• Easy to search

The latest issue of DP contains data on:

• 1,548 poster designers
• 2,164 architects and architectural firms
• 349 Japanese designers
• 1,038 US industrial designers
• 648 Italian designers
• 211 weavers
• 5,394 US designers
• 2,353 painters
• 761 ceramists
• 821 sculptors
• 672 glass artists
• 294 muralists
• 2,211 illustrators
• 452 photographers
• 414 typographers
• 244 silversmiths
• 282 cartoonists
• 149 embroiderers
• 791 textile designers
• 298 theatre designers
• 1,331 furniture designers
• 241 lighting designers
• 382 packaging designers
• 373 jewelry designers
• 3,510 graphic designers
• 220 stained glass designers
• 53 window display designers
• 254 exhibition designers