2010 has arrived! What sort of visual trends can be expected in the next year? How will Clip Art evolve into the new decade?
Going back through 2009 submissions will provide a point of reference as we search for these answers.

When used effectively, gradients can add new dimensions to vector-based imagery. The landscape [...]

December 2009 Clip Art of the Month belongs to New Year’s Celebrations!

As time runs short in this decade and people begin to look toward 2010, images by our Anonymous contributors and Muga help to remind us to look back and celebrate all we’ve been able to accomplish in the last year.

With glasses raised, many begin [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]