Book Description
Hundreds of attractive royalty-free designs from all periods and styles — from Renaissance and Baroque to Art Deco and Geometric. The virtually inexhaustible supply of dynamic, black-and-white graphic devices includes elegantly rendered miniature flowers and leaves, everyday objects, holiday and abstract motifs, classical designs, and other decorative elements.
Customer Reviews:
Good stuff, But . . ........2007-02-13
This is a good collection, I just wish the images came in vector format. They are all in photoshop Tiff format.
Check contents, not just title!.......2006-06-21
This is a terrific clip art book however, Dover has sold this exact same book under the title, "Printer's Ornaments and Dingbats." So if you already own that book, safe yourself the money and don't buy this duplicate under a different title. What a bummer!!!
An excellent design reference book.......2003-11-17
A wonderful and wide range of designs great for motifs and decorative design development. Don't miss it!
Book Description
From a rare sourcebook: more than 250 superb designs depicting decorative letters, elaborate floral borders, body type, and delicate woodcut illustrations. Together with a smaller selection of full-color designs once used in wallpaper, tapestries and other domestic accessories, the handsome motifs offer a vast storehouse of ideas. 291 designs, 40 in full color.
Customer Reviews:
beautiful images which print very well.......2007-02-19
This book includes a selection of black & white picture frames in both narrow and wide styles. The narrow ones have turned out to be very useful for innermost frames of pictures and other images, then surrounded by color frames. I've even used the black & white picture images for hand-coloring. But the color images in this book are magnificent, and they print exactly as well as one would hope. This dover collection is a credit to them.
Book Description
More than 200 authentic Celtic motifs, ideal for myriad uses, include elaborate spirals and weaves, exotic birds, horned beasts, mermaids, and other fanciful creatures. This outstanding collection of distinctive designs features a rich and diverse variety of patterns, which can be used as borders or individually.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent source for ideas.......2007-10-05
This is an excellent source of design ideas. I have recently started working in polymer clay and hope to start also with metal clay, so I was casting about for ideas and came across this book and CD of Celtic art motifs.
I am very fond of the basic knotted designs of the Halstadt culture which tends to be very curvilinear geometric, and over half of the designs in this book are Halstadt in style (as opposed to the later La Tène period with designs that incorporate stylized animals into the Celtic knot motif. For those who prefer the latter, check Celtic Designs in the same collection.)
The CD was easily installed on my computer, easy to open and navigate. It took me a little time to refamiliarize myself with the clip art style. I haven't used it since it came on floppy disks! This was very much easier to do.
Celtic Design Cd - excellent buy!.......2007-07-09
This was a great purchase for me. I have really enjoyed creating with the designs. There are many variations to choose from and I have used it a lot!
Great for design.......2007-04-03
I needed to get this book for some wedding designs I was making up. The pictures are great there are lots of different designs and they have them in all different file formats. Perfect for Graphic Design.
Celtic designs.......2007-01-04
No need for a scanner with the cd-rom. I use these for scrollsawing patterns.
Honestly represented and fairly priced.
Book Description
245 black-and-white images from authentic folk art of New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, the Hawaiian Islands, and Australia — among other locales. Includes geometric patterns, masks, wood carvings, images of the mysterious giant statuary of Easter Island, Australian rock paintings, tapestries, pottery, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Not spectacular.......2007-07-12
It's okay, but nothing to write home about and not much that isn't out in the public already.
Book Description
Exquisite collection by the most celebrated artist in the history of botanical art includes 184 meticulous reproductions of original watercolors. A spectacular treasury of lilies, tulips, roses, cherries, crocus, and other plants will prove to be an invaluable resource for artists, designers, and craftworkers. The lovely, royalty-free images will delight nature lovers as well.
Customer Reviews:
Exactly what I was looking for.......2007-01-09
This is a great resource. I'm a graphic designer and have been looking for full color illustrations of flowers and fruit like this for a while. Lots of online stock photo/illustration sites sell similar artwork for anywhere from $75-250 each. Here you get a large variety for under $20.
Flowers & Fruits.......2005-09-12
This is an excellent printing of just what I needed. I use these images for decoupage and they are great!
Book Description
These colorful illustrations, brimming with nostalgia, evoke the good life at elegant hotels and resorts — from Monte Carlo to Pasadena and from Atlantic City to Bangkok. A treasury of lush graphics for commercial artists, designers, scrapbookers and other hobbyists, these images will also appeal to people in the travel industry. 278 full-color illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
Good Travel Posters.......2007-01-12
I wanted to do a decorating project and needed some Hotel and Travel Stickers. This was an excellent resource for completing my project. It is too bad Hotels and Railways no longer do this.
Book Description
From a rare volume on the history of playing cards: nearly 500 elegant illustrations that once graced European regular and tarot card decks. On display are face cards, musical instruments, fantasy figures, and other motifs — all ideal for adding a period flair to almost any graphic project. 251 black-and-white illustrations, 245 designs in color.
Customer Reviews:
Good images, but incomplete.......2007-04-28
The images are interesting and high quality, and come in a variety of designs, but if you want a whole set of antique playing cards, this is not the place to go. There isn't even a full set of face cards.
pretty good selection.......2006-11-06
Not a bad selection, haven't used the images yet but I'm sure I will at some stage.
Book Description
Add a note of elegance to countless graphic arts and crafts projects with 166 black-and-white designs depicting lovely swirls and curlicues reminiscent of 18th-century pen flourishes. Designed by Kiyoshi Takahashi, these copyright-free motifs will add a delicate touch to ads, newsletters, posters, scrolls, certificates and more.
Customer Reviews:
Same content as Ready-to-Use Calligraphic Ornaments By Takahashi (Dover).......2006-02-17
Buyers shoud be aware that this book has the same content as an earlier Dover book,Ready-to-Use Calligraphic Ornaments by Kiyoshi Takahashi. This is better becuase it comes with a CD, but it is the same collection of images.
The .eps format dissapointed me...like other reviewers, I was hoping vor vector based images. I did have good results with Illustrator CS2's live trace tool. I turned the images into plain linework, then added the thick/thin look of calligraphy by applying Illustrator's calligraphic brushes. A bit if work, but the results are nice.
No Vector But Great When Converted.......2004-12-15
I must say I am glad that I read the other reviews so that I was prepared when I purchased this item. It is a bit misleading that the CD contains files in EPS format because they act just like a placed image in Illustrator. HOWEVER, with a program like Adobe Streamline, the images are absolutely GORGEOUS. I highly recommend this item along with Streamline. In the end, the quality workmanship of a Dover book is found in this product.
No Vector..........2004-06-06
When i first saw this book, i was very excited because it said that i had .eps files, which to me, mean vector, easy to use etc. These files are all raster, thus if you are seeking full vector, you might need to order a copy of Adobe Streamline and covert these. Big disappointment.
joshua
(...)
I agree with the Graphic Designer from Los Angeles..........2003-01-05
And unfortunately I was looking for true clip art! However, I must say that the ornaments presented are truly stunning, and can easily be used in paper crafting of any kind. I used this book to create labels for gifts and to address holiday envelopes. I am a novice desktop publisher and was not disappointed.
Cris Cunningham
Graphic Designer in Los Angeles.......2000-12-02
The ornamentation is very nice but something anyone buying any of the Dover Electronic Clip Art series books should take into account is that they are not actual clip art items. Dover has just scanned the art and put it on a CD, the items are not scalable or changeable in a usual clip art format. It is very helpful to have the images already scanned but if you want true clip art, this book is not for you.
Book Description
These 92 brilliantly colored, royalty-free images once decorated old-fashioned crates of Florida grapefruits and oranges, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Oregon pears, New York grapes, and dozens of more products from California and other states. Now available for use in a wide variety of art, craft, and graphic projects, these labels will be fun for casual browsers and nostalgia lovers, too.
Customer Reviews:
Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Series).......2007-10-01
This is a great book of vintage label clip art. Very clean images and lots of diversity in subject. I would recommend for any craft, or graphic project.
Same Book as Old-fashioned Fruit Crate Labels.......2003-01-23
I bought this book and Old-Time Fruit Crate Labels in Full Color because I was interested in using some of the labels for decoupage. Imagine my surprise when I received them and found out the books have exactly the same labels inside--Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels just has the CD-ROM and a different cover.
The labels are beautiful and I will be using them, but I am disappointed that it is not possible to determine from the book descriptions that they have the same labels. Oh well, I'm giving my extra copy to our local library.
Book Description
Fine selection of plates from rare catalog — advertising elegantly illustrated fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings — depict wood carvings, mouldings, and furniture trimmings. Includes 538 black-and-white illustrations of borders, garlands, and other decorative elements, ideal for use by artists, designers, woodworkers, and other craftspeople.
Customer Reviews:
Ornaments galore.......2007-07-15
Excellent collection of printable materials for everthing from documents and awards to gift items. Can be used for many purposes (think creatively).
Books:
- 2,286 Traditional Stencil Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- 21 Things I Wish My Broker Had Told Me: Practical Advice for New Real Estate Professionals.
- Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
- Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- Architectural Graphic Standards, Tenth Edition (Book only)
- ART OF POCAHONTAS, THE
- Bone Volume 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border
- Bungalow Bathrooms (Bungalow Basics)
- Calligraphic Ornaments CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
- Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
- Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
- Contemporary Visual Merchandising and Environmental Design, Third Edition
- Fuel-Injected Dreams: A Novel
- Luba and the Wren
- Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man
- On Women Turning Fifty: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries
- Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
- John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist
- The Uncommon Wisdom of Ronald Reagan: A Portrait in His Own Words
Clip Art
| Graphic Design
| Design & Decorative Arts
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Calligraphic Ornaments CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
660 Typographic Ornaments CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Baroque Ornament CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Decorative Corners CD-ROM and Book
Trees and Leaves CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
