850 Calligraphic Ornaments for Designers and Craftsmen
Title | 850 Calligraphic Ornaments for Designers and Craftsmen PDF eBook |
Author | Kiyoshi Takahashi |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2012-09-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486144127 |
Blending the old and the new . . . the elegance of eighteenth-century pen flourishing, replete with elaborate swirls and curlicues, and the precision of modern graphic design, boasting clean lines free of feathering, blotting, and other irregularities . . . in this spirit, artist Kiyoshi Takahashi offers this collection of 850 original calligraphic ornaments. Created in response to the recurring needs of his own design studio, Mr. Takahashi's expertly drawn, top-quality ornaments include delicate calligraphic swirls, scrolls, frames, borders, cartouches, and other design elements suitable to any number of commercial and crafts uses. They lend decorative flair to menus, posters, bookplates, stationery, honorary scrolls, and certificates, and are ideal for enclosing, enhancing, or drawing attention to advertising copy or any other graphic message. Two pages of examples show just how well these ornaments can embellish modern typography. And, best of all, Mr. Takahashi's ornaments are readily usable and completely copyright free. Commercial artists, graphic designers, illustrators, craftspeople, and calligraphers will appreciate this collection of 850 precisely rendered modern ornaments recalling the graceful pen flourishing of the eighteenth century.
Calligraphic Ornaments
Title | Calligraphic Ornaments PDF eBook |
Author | Dover Publications, Inc |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486999394 |
Add a note of elegance to countless graphic arts and craft 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.
Classic Calligraphic Designs
Title | Classic Calligraphic Designs PDF eBook |
Author | Dover |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 048699516X |
Featuring the timeless elegance of swirls, curves, and flourishes of calligraphic illustration, this collection features 378 black-and-white angels, animals, abstracts, and other motifs, all chosen from vintage sources.
Letter Forms
Title | Letter Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick W. Lambert |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1972-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780486228723 |
Illustrates 110 complete alphabets in various type styles in capital letters, and includes sixteen complete lower case alphabets, and seventy sets of numbers and other symbols.
Grunge Alphabets
Title | Grunge Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780486402826 |
Offbeat, eye-catching typefaces add a sharp, contemporary look to display ads, posters, signs, menus, and other graphic projects. Fonts include the jagged-edged style of Ransom Note, playful Kidprint and Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, and dozens more: Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, and Aspodistra.
New Calligraphic Ornaments & Flourishes
Title | New Calligraphic Ornaments & Flourishes PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Baker |
Publisher | Dover Publications |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780486240954 |
Arthur Baker's first collection of original calligraphic broad pen designs, including horizontal elements, arrows, pointing hands, brackets, frames, ovals, swirls, spirals, flowers, hearts lozenges, circles, birds, fish and other ornaments and flourishes. Design elements are suitable to any number of commercial and personal craft uses, and are readily usable and copyright-free.
Calligraphic Ornaments
Title | Calligraphic Ornaments PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Calligraphy |
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