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....

If you are an artist or designer, craftworker or art student, the price of this volume may be the best investment you've ever made. It contains an incredibly rich collection of bright, modern design material that is immediately usable -- all selected especially for this volume from historical periods that are popular today, and from such favorite styles as op art and Art Nouveau. And everything in this book is copyright free Just select the designs you need, use them alone or in combination with other elements, apply them intact or altered to your needs, and repeat individual items in...

This collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world.
Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs -- rice plant, gingko, scallop, lightning, anchor, spool, raft, candle, scissors, fern, saki bottle, lotus blossom, mountain arrow, pine, wisteria,...

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...

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,...

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...

Bold, eye-catching, often witty and whimsical -- silhouettes offer graphic artists a rich source of attention-getting motifs with antique flair. This collection includes over 400 old-fashioned silhouettes, all royalty-free, featuring finely detailed male and female profiles, elegantly clad couples, nimble-footed nymphs, children at play, a menagerie of wild and domesticated animals, diverse modes of transportation (horse and buggy, balloon, bicycle, plane, boat), and a delightful alphabet composed of leaning, sitting, and standing human figures. Ideal for enhancing greeting cards,...

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...