World label Blog: Labels, printables, open source & more! » feature http://blog.worldlabel.com Labels, tips, tricks, hacks & more! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Clip Art of the Week: Minduka’s Notebook http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-mindukas-notebook.html http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-mindukas-notebook.html#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:32:15 +0000 wlmanager http://blog.worldlabel.com/?p=2173 We are really getting into photo-realistic clip art. Maybe its the world being flooded with iPhones or loads of movies like Terminator 4 and Transformers that show off some new concepts in glassy interfaces. Regardless, Minduka has his eyes set on making some quality clip art.

Minduka Notebook

Also, Minduka made a nice image of a Present. With Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), since I’m an admin, I’m able to help cleanup Minduka’s file. When he uploaded it, he did not set the document boundary correctly. We hope that all types of people will upload content, so please keep uploading. However, every once and a while special people come to the Open Clip Art Library who want help fix these issues. We call these awesome people, Librarians. If you want to be one, please do join our mailing list and we can show you how.

I fixed the following image, uploaded the file again and then created a thumbnail of his work for this blog post and the OCAL website. Fixed!

Minduka Present

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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:

Remi Hunter Knife Remi Trash Remi Trash

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 billboards, airplanes, in books, or anywhere you can use these images, since they are all released into the public domain!

I bring up Remi’s awesome clip art this week to also highlight that this entire month is the 5 year anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library. To celebrate the project’s birthday en route to the big Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, we are aiming big to cross the 10,000 pieces of clip art submitted to the collection. Please help us reach this goal now by contributing your clip art! And, if you’ve used this clip art in great ways, please submit an image showing how you have used the clip art.

]]> http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-remis-champagne-anyone.html/feed 0 Clip Art of the Week: Abe Lincoln + Obama http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/clip-art-of-the-week-abe-lincoln-obama.html#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:09:20 +0000 rejon http://blog.worldlabel.com/?p=650 This is a new weekly blog post which highlights great quality clip art found at Open Clip Art Library. It will be blogged here at the Worldlabel blog and point out great clip art and provide a rallying cry to make better clip art in order to be featured each week. If you make clip art in response to the weekly clip art, don’t be shy! Please comment on this blog linking to your clip art.

This week, artist Shepherd Fairey has taken much heat over his OBAMA Hope poster which has been claimed to use an unauthorized photo by an Associated Press photographer. This image is the definitive image of OBAMA that most have seen and will be remembered through the ages as linked to OBAMA winning the presidential campaign of 2008.

Regardless of the outcome of this lawsuit against Mr. Fairey which appears to be shielded by Fair Use in the US, nothing should stop us from highlighting a great woodcut of President Lincoln done by Johnny Automatic from an old public domain source, available at the Open Clip Art Library:

Abraham Lincoln

Please use this image anywhere you want! Clip art submitted to the Open Clip Art Library is released into the public domain meaning, you can do anything you want with it!

While I would have linked to a great example of OBAMA for this first clip art of the week at worldlabel.com, I want to issue a challenge to all to create a nice legal image clip art of OBAMA similar to this one by rg1024:

Please take the invitation, create your own OBAMA clip art, upload it to Open Clip Art Library, and comment on this blog post with your creation! People will use your clip art and spread the greatness of your creations.

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