Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Clip Art

You have something important to say. Are you sure your audience is listening? Clocks start ticking in the minds of your listeners the minute you begin your presentation. These clocks measure the amount of time you have to interest them before their attention wanders elsewhere. Could be three minutes. Could be thirty seconds. But make your audience laugh and they forget about their clocks. They are too busy listening. Make them laugh and they will listen. Humor is one of your most powerful tools as a speaker, and 1001 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking lets you wield it with power....

Susan Gaber's garden is a black-and-white Eden of lush flower design -- 100 graceful, botanically accurate garden flowers rendered for artists and anyone who admires or needs floral designs and motifs: needleworkers, craftsmen of all sorts, designers. All the drawings may be used royalty-free.
Ms. Gaber has drawn these flowers with sinuously weaving leaves and stems, flowing and swaying as in a breeze on the page, in compositions suitable for design purposes: some of the flowers appear several times, and many of the drawings form frames, repeating borders, and motifs. The flowers, many...

The subtlety and vitality of traditional Japanese design are admired (and imitated) the world over. Here is a treasury of hundreds of authentic Japanese design motifs -- all royalty-free and easy to reproduce -- sure to appeal to artists and craftsmen striving for distinctive touches in their projects.
Noted artist Joseph D'Addetta presents 264 strikingly beautiful pen-and-ink renderings of motifs from ceramics, textiles, lacquerwork, screens, fans, woodblock prints, and other valuable objets d'art found in museums and private collections. Designs date from the thirteenth and...

The demand by artists and craftspeople for visually exciting designs has created renewed interest in traditional Japanese motifs which are ideal for modern decorative and graphic needs.
This comprehensive archive presents 276 exquisite Japanese stencil designs, inspired by natural themes and developed to ideographic perfection through the centuries. Sky, seam and land birds, beasts, insects, and countless flora and fauna comprise Japanese design vocabulary.
Versatile motifs include clouds, sun, stars, waves, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, fish, and delicate floral and foliate...

This ample, carefully researched volume contains more than 360 royalty-free designs, each meticulously rendered from embellishments on Indian blankets, pottery, blankets, clothing, carvings, paintings, metalwork, or other artifacts in various museums and private collections. The illustrations span 2,000 years -- from prehistoric pipe bowls carved in stone that date back to 100 B.C., to 20th-century painted pottery designs that are based on traditional motifs.
Florals, hunting scenes, stylized plants and animals, mythological figures, geometrics, double-curve motifs, feather designs,...

Recognized internationally for their subtlety, delicate lines, and enduring beauty, artistic Chinese designs have long been regarded as more than simple ornamentation. The distinctive motifs represented in this superb collection of 218 royalty-free patterns are typical of a vital art tradition that is experiencing a worldwide renaissance in popularity.
Selected from various illustrated booklets published throughout the People's Republic of China and in Hong Kong, these motifs are derived from a vast selection of Chinese artifacts -- dating from prehistoric pottery to the present day....

In 1923 the Syracuse Ornamental Company in New York State advertised its fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings to the trade in an elegantly illustrated sales catalog. The catalog contained thousands of beautiful line drawings of delicately carved floral wreaths and sprays for furniture panels, as well as finely worked trophees, bases, posts, corners, and legs.
Now hundreds of these attractive and skillfully drawn illustrations have been reproduced here in sharp black-and-white -- available royalty-free to artists, illustrators, and craftspeople. Comprising 124 of the...

From the leaning tower of Pisa to windmills and wooden shoes, this exciting collection of royalty-free graphics offers 76 versatile motifs ideal for use in travel brochures, advertisements, books and magazine illustrations, signs, posters -- any project with a travel theme. Presented in three different sizes, ready-to-use spots include cowboys on horseback, flamenco and hula dancers, Mariachi bands, St. Louis' Golden Arch, the Capitol in Washington, Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building, Venetian gondoliers, London's Big Ben, and much more. Printed in crisp black on...

Sports in the good old days are the theme of this royalty-free archive of over 460 superbly detailed line illustrations featuring players of every kind of sport, suited up and ready for action. Most of the men and women depicted are modeling Victorian and early-20th-century sporting outfits and uniforms, but if their garb seems quaint, their sports are very familiar -- baseball, football, handball, bowling, tennis, golf, horseback riding, polo, archery, shooting, hunting, skating, skiing, sledding, fishing, swimming, boating, bicycling, boxing, fencing, billiards, and even rugby, lacrosse,...

Here's a treasury of bold, eye-catching silhouettes ready for immediate use in countless arts and crafts projects. Royalty-free graphics depict a magnificent menagerie of easily recognizable pets, farm and domestic animals -- all accurately rendered in silhouette form by artist Ellen Sandbeck. Over 190 striking illustrations include rabbits, pigs, parrots, dogs, cats, horses, cows, sheep, goats, fish, donkeys, geese, turkeys, chickens, turtles, and many other animals. They're ideal for use in magazine and book illustrations, newsletters, posters, programs and advertisements, as well as for...