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Visual Communication: Images

A guide for Visual Communication students on finding & referencing high-quality academic books, articles and images, and well as resources for developing graphic design & data visualisation skills.

Where to find images

 

It's important that you look for images in the correct places (don't just do a Google image search!) to make sure that the images you find are high-quality and easy to reference. Below are some recommended sources to find images. 

Image databases

 

The Library subscribes to several image databases with high-quality images that you can search for. There are also free databases online which have a range of images you can search. 


General image databases


Discipline-specific image databases

Websites

 

Searching or browsing websites with image collections is a good way of finding stock images, graphs, diagrams & infographics. 


Stock images & videos


Graphs & infographics

Government bodies & organisations often produce graphs & infographics from data and statistics they've gathered. Searching those government & organisation websites can help with locating images on the topic you're researching.