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VADS: the online resource for the visual arts
VADS: the online resource for the visual arts

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VADS provides over 140,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

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VADS is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).

The images cover the broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media, and are freely available for non-commercial use in education.

Collections include:

  • African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Northern Italian Sketchbook
  • Designing Britain - Design Archives, University of Brighton
  • Glasgow School of Art - The Magazine
  • Halliwell Collection
  • The Mechanical Engineering Image Collection
  • Royal College of Art Collection
  • The Textiles Collection - University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
  • UAL: London College of Fashion - Paper Patterns
  • Zandra Rhodes DIgital Study Collection

For further information on the permitted uses of the website content, please see the Copyright Notice.

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