Art Nouveau Frames And Borders

250 royalty-free illustrations. From small cartouches to elaborate, full-page compositions. Variety of shapes: square, oblong, round, oval and heart-shaped.

Collection of clip art on a variety of topics.

This treasury of 204 authentic black-and-white border and frame designs overflows with outlines that will add instant polish to any project. Selected from vintage periodicals, these floral and figurative motifs range from dainty cartouches to elaborate, full-page compositions and from delicate and ethereal to bold and stately.

Among the most successful applications of the curvilinear style of Art Nouveau movement were the frames, borders, and similar decorations that filled the books, magazines, posters, and advertising of the time. Today, a century later, working artists continue to rely on Art Nouveau ornamentation, embellishing a wide range of copy and typography with fin de siècle aesthetics. This indispensable collection presents 315 royalty-free Art Nouveau frames and borders for the designer, artist, and advertiser looking for an affordable way to enliven any graphic message. Choose from floral and foliate motifs, butterflies and peacocks, female figures, sensuous cherubs, asymmetrical shapes, and undulating lines — in a variety of shapes and sizes. All illustrations are directly and immediately usable. Printed in crisp black-and-white images on repro-quality paper, they are perfect, inexpensive embellishments for whatever your graphic project — menu, invitation, advertisement, greeting card, catalog, or poster.

Art Nouveau swept turn-of-the-century Europe and America with its graceful, flowing lines and sensuous female figures. Today the style enjoys renewed popularity among artists and craftspeople drawn to its timeless beauty. A noted artist and designer has assembled a sparkling collection of elements culled from an 18-year run of Jugend, a German periodical which became a major Art Nouveau showcase. Here are more than 500 frames, borders, vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and spot illustrations — all royalty-free — by Otto Eckmann, Hans Christiansen, Bernhard Pankok, and many other leading practitioners of the Art Nouveau style. You'll find elegant floral patterns and borders, horses, lions, peacocks, intertwined snakes, etc. Here men and women dance, smoke, drive automobiles, drink toasts to one another, and more. You will be delighted by graceful nudes, precious nymphs astride dolphins, voluptuous can-can girls high-kicking in a repeating border pattern, and much more. Elements are conveniently categorized according to dominant motif — people, plants, animals, abstracts/geometrics. Their myriad design uses — greeting cards, advertisements, menus, to name a few — make them invaluable to artists, illustrators, advertisers, and craftspeople in many disciplines.

Both traditional and unusual arrows: bold, discreet, simple, ornate, sleek, old-fashioned, etc. 32 plates.

A giant and varied collection of borders and frames for the use of artists and designers. Drawn from numerous first-rate sources, this book covers practically every style, mood, and form as interpreted through the whole range of art movements and historical periods.

Over 280 graceful motifs ideal for enclosing and enhancing small ads, catalog copy, more. Art Nouveau motifs, Victorian florals, geometrics, scrollwork, ribbonlike swirls, etc. Inexpensive and royalty-free.