March 2010 saw the beginning of a new era in the history of The Open Clip Art Library, with the release of version 2.0. With key revisions to the way people use and interact with the art on the site, user registration and site contributions have grown exponentially! The continued success of this project is [...]

The Open Clip Art Library grew from a project between Jon Phillips (of Fabricatorz) and Bryce Harrington, in early 2004. From humble beginnings, it has evolved into a massive collection of over 24,000 scalable vector images, all created by 1200+ artists from around the world. The Open Clip Art Library is an increasingly useful and [...]

Web 2.0: an often used and misunderstood term describing the current digital landscape. Clip Art of the Month for March, 2010, takes a look at Web 2.0 design standards and what they mean to the Clip Art Community. One of the most recognizable aspects of Web 2.0 design is having a bold color scheme. As [...]

p {clear: both} #pic1, #pic2, #pic3 {position: relative; float: left; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0px;} Clip Art of the Month for February 2010 will focus on Content regulation. Whether one stands in favor of Apple’s products or against them, it’s impossible to deny Jobs and Company’s impact on our technological lives. Last week [...]

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 designed [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]