The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style. Now artists, designers, and craftspeople can have a treasury of original Art deco compositions at their fingertips — ready for use in any graphic project. This volume includes over 500 crisp black-and-white spot illustrations and motifs combining stylized birds, insects, and floral elements with circles, squares, ovals, triangles, and other abstract forms. Best of all, they're copyright-free . . . no prior permission or fee is required for use. Remarkably inventive and versatile, William Rowe's masterful Art Deco renderings are perfect for highlighting advertisements, greeting cards, menus, catalogs and invitations, or for adding graphic vitality to fabric designs, stationery, bookplates, and a host of other arts and crafts undertakings. You'll find Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs ideal for your needs whether your project calls for an entire illustration or just a single motif. Designers, illustrators, and craft enthusiasts will want to keep this time-saving, money-saving collection on hand as an inexhaustible source of inspiration with fresh Art Deco flavor.

Oriental art.

Voluminous, diversified collection of ornamental two-, three-, and four-letter combinations — all in a rich variety of styles, many incorporating crowns, coronets, and ancient and modern alphabets. 130 black-and-white plates.

Eye-catching typefaces with casual or "country" air. Annie Oakley, Hedge Row, Stuntman, Ticonderoga Bold, many more. Complete uppercase alphabets, many with lowercase, numerals and punctuation.

Over 350 illustrations of different foods, people eating, utensils, banquets, menus, wine lists. Beautifully reproduced 19th-century line drawings depict every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation, display, and consumption of food and drink.

The Desktop Designer’s Illustration Handbook Marcelle Lapow Toor If you want to reach—and hold—audiences who’ve seen everything, read this new hands-on guide to locating, selecting, and using illustrations in desktop publications. In no time at all, you’ll be able to select just the right illustration technique to make your publication pop. The Desktop Designer’s Illustration Handbook is written by a graphic designer who really knows how to teach desktop illustration techniques. Marcelle Lapow Toor has taught graphic design and desktop publishing to university students and has conducted workshops at national conferences throughout the country. Her proven building block approach helps you make practical sense of the principles of illustration, design, and composition. She easily guides you through the process—from deciding what kind of illustration to use to manipulating images for maximum visual impact. With the aid of insider tips from participating pros, hundreds of illustrations, helpful hints, and time saving checklists, Ms. Toor clearly explains how to create eye-catching results using: Type - Dress up your design and keep costs low with eye-catching type and typographic devices. Learn simple techniques for using type as an illustration. Drawings - Add variety with clip art and original illustration. Learn how to locate and choose the drawing, illustrator, or clip art that will give your publication the competing edge. Photographs - Grab your reader’s attention with photographs that breathe life into the copy and baby your budget. Learn when it’s best to use a photograph, how to use a scanner to alter a photograph, and where to look for low-cost photos. Information Graphics - Take the snore out of statistics with reader-friendly charts, graphs, tables, and maps. Learn how to select the best format for statistical information so it is easily understood at a glance. Computer graphics - Punch up interest with textured backgrounds that you create with a scanner, an image-editing program, and materials lying around your office. Plus, learn how to achieve the effects you want with a drawing or painting program. You’ll turn again and again to this jam-packed idea book for inspiration as well as information. Here are hundreds of illustration ideas, guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing. And that’s not all. This indispensable desk reference gives you even more hands-on resources that you can put to work right away: A blow-by-blow description of the graphic devices used in each chapter and a clear explanation of how they were created. A sampler of clip art, with addresses of the software manufacturers who supply art on disk or CD-ROM. A sampler of pictorial and decorative typefaces. A list of public and private picture sources. Many illustrations by well-known professional illustrators and directions for contacting them. A glossary of desktop publishing terminology. You won’t find a more complete or easier to use illustration source book. Whether you decide to use illustrations that are ready-made, illustrations created by hired hands, or illustrations that you create yourself, you’ll produce head turning, results every time with The Desktop Designer’s Illustration Handbook.

More than a pictorial archive of medieval dress and decoration, this beautiful collection is also valuable for its discerning scholarship. A magnificent compilation of artwork from Henry Shaw's detailed study of court life in the Middle Ages, this splendid book provides a grand display of medieval figures and fashions of the times. Reproduced directly from Shaw's original, hand-colored plates and identified by brief captions, more than 200 superb illustrations depict knights in battle, ladies in waiting, kings, queens, popes, and commoners, as well as armor and weapons, jewelry, and other decorative accessories. Skillfully adapted from rare paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, textiles, and stained glass windows, these lovely illustrations will be invaluable to fashion historians and costume designers. Craftworkers will find them equally useful.