1500 Spot Illustrations And Motifs

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.

You'll turn to this collection of wonderfully detailed, ready-to-use spot illustrations again and again: animals, insects, birds, furniture, tools, hardware, recreational scenes, ornamental borders and devices, fruit, flora, and much more. The black-and-white illustrations — filled with quaint, old-fashioned flavor — will add nostalgic flourishes to an array of projects!

These crisp, black-and-white images will lend a distinctive Far Eastern accent to any project. Hundreds of eye-catching images include geometrics, abstracts, optical illusions, plus other intriguing configurations that adapt easily for use as spot illustrations or as repeating patterns. Professional and amateur artists, illustrators, and designers will find this inexpensive treasury a priceless source of royalty-free inspiration.

These authentic Jazz Age motifs were selected from issues of the popular magazine La Vie Parisienne, published from 1918 to 1930. Jaunty motifs include dashing playboys, frolicking flappers, and other period images, all arranged by categories that include food and drink, gambling, art, shopping, crime, music, romance, sports, and more.

Over 1,300 distinctive, well-designed royalty-free cuts in a wide variety of categories: men engaged in athletic and social activities; women as homemakers, models, femme fatales; animals as fantasy figures and in realistic poses; transportation, many other topics. Add period flavor to almost any graphic project.

Nearly 2,800 authentic, royalty-free cuts of early 20th century advertising art: clothing, flowers, domestic accessories, modes of transportation, musical instruments, U.S. Presidents, hundreds of other subjects.

Lively collection of royalty-free spots for commercial artists dramatizes a host of enterprises: business, communications, education, industry, construction, transportation, legal and healthcare services, sports, travel, entertainment, and much more.

Successful, forward-thinking illustrators no longer operate the way many did and still do, as merely colouring-in technicians, receiving briefs that are heavily directed and prescribed regarding content and overall visual concept. Nowadays, illustrators need to be educated, socially and culturally aware communicators, having knowledge, understanding and insight regarding the context within which they are working, the subject matter that they are engaged with, and to be able professionals working within the parameters and needs of the market place and target audiences. They need to utilise a breadth of intellectual and practical skills some that might once be regarded as transferable from other disciplines, but are now considered essential if the illustrator has ambitions to transcend the basic role of commissioned hack. This book introduces the concept of the illustrator as a specialist or authority on a particular subject or as an originator of either fiction and/or non-fiction material. Examples include- effective and creative written communication and authorship, academic research, art direction and design management. The book focuses on illustration, education and theory, in particular the latter stages of undergraduate development and post-graduate study and research- such as theoretical and intellectual processes, research and visual language. Definitions and philosophies of what illustration is are also featured, together with a relevant historical overview.