Posts Tagged ‘clipart’

June 5th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Jeronimo’s Dice and Other Photo-Realistic Art

Jeronimo is cranking out high quality photo-realistic clip art which is highly usable from everything from T-Shirts, labels, postcards, and compositions. Since the clip art is freely usable, you can use it on your own business card design or website.

Jeronimo just uploaded the above Globe, seemingly inspired by the recent praise for his uploads. There [...]

May 14th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Hrum’s Red Flower and More

The last post focused on Anonymous Clip Art submissions, for this Clip Art of the Week, let’s feature the new work of Open Clip Art Library contributor, Hrum, particularly Red Flower which highlights the current theme at Open Clip Art Library — spring!

Other great selections are the vector traced and tweaked, bottle below, and the [...]

April 24th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Anonymous Clip Arts

One of the solutions to our constant need for developers, is that instead of importing our old collection of clip art algorithmically, on Open Clip Art Library, librarians such as Johnny Automatic, Chovynz, Darth Gimp and others have been helping to clean, manually upload, and tag files for the refreshed Open Clip Art Library.
For this [...]

March 30th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Boobaloo’s Onion + OCAL10K Exceeded + OCAL 0.19 Release

This is a really big week for the Open Clip Art Library! To start things off, last week we crossed the 10,000 file upload with the clip art of the week by Boobaloo:

Also, this entire last month the Open Clip Art Library celebrated its 5th birthday! We exceeded the 10,000 file upload mark last week [...]

March 20th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Papapishu’s Junk Ship and Wikimedia Clips

Last week’s featured work focused on minimalism. This week’s featured Clip Art of the Week comes from Papapishu. He has taken the approach to find old pages from books that are in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons, extracts the clip art, and then converts them into vector graphics. The results are quite amazing:

The original [...]

March 11th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Pitr’s Minimalist Food Icons

As we keep growing and striding beyond 9530 pieces of clip art towards the 10,000 clip art mark submitted to the Open Clip Art Library, the quality of submissions keeps increasing.
For this week, I am highlighting the minimal works of Pitr.

One image I really appreciate is of Pitr’s watermelon:

This image is a reworked version of [...]

March 6th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Remi’s Champagne Anyone?

When prepping last week’s Clip Art of the Week, I discovered the glossy clip art of Remi. He has done some really amazing work such as the following:

All of his clip art submissions are super-high quality! I would love to receive images showing people and businesses using this clip art on [...]

February 25th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: AJ’s Projector Screen and Media Icons

Sometimes I go through Open Clip Art Library and find gems like all the work AJ has made. For the Clip Art of the Week, I wanted to highlight his projection screen icon:

This is a great graphic! He has a mastery over Inkscape’s gradients and making icons look crisp. And, what is great about this [...]

February 21st, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Hand Drawn Skull

Following up from last week’s collection of donated sketches from Russell at Worldlabel, I discovered this lovely skull that narrowhouse sketches with a wacom tablet and uploaded to the Open Clip Art Library.
This is a great way to contribute clip art to the Open Clip Art Library. If you draw images by hand, you can [...]

February 17th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Worldlabel Clip Art Gift

Last week’s clip art of the week inspired me to create a couple of quick vectorized graphics from Obama’s public domain senate image from Wikimedia Commons:

The above image I created by taking the photo of Obama, importing it into the free drawing program, Inkscape, and then using the tracing function to convert the unscalable pixels [...]