Posts Tagged ‘ocal’

August 16th, 2010

Open Clip Art Library: Call for Fall & Halloween Work

Efforts to ramp up Community Involvement have become a driving force in the development of The Open Clip Art Library. Recent updates to the platform have begun implementing key features to the already robust 2.0 environment.
Most recently, a themed clip art package has begun it’s release, alongside each monthly iteration of OCAL. [...]

July 19th, 2010

Open Clip Art Library: Call for Sports Clip Art

The Open Clip Art Library has spent much of 2010 actively pursuing higher ground and greater methods of user contribution, beginning with the March Release of Version 2.0. Since that landmark release, the OCAL team has been on a regular iteration schedule, geared toward simplifying the user experience and fixing bugs.
More recent openclipart.org releases have [...]

July 7th, 2010

Open Clip Art Library Releases Version 2.3!

The Open Clip Art Library enjoys yet another of it’s scheduled monthly updates, with revision 2.3. With over 32,000 vector graphics currently calling it home, OCAL has grown into one of the largest and most prevalent sources for freely available graphics on the web. Version 2.3 aims to begin building on this solid [...]

June 22nd, 2010

Open Clip Art Library Launches Logo Design Contest!

The “Free Culture” Movement, instantiated in a 2004 publication by Creative Commons founding member Lawrence Lessig, is a reaction to content ownership in a digital age. Because The Open Clip Art Library is, at it’s core, a platform to freely share and collaborate created content, it will be forever intertwined with the Movement.
The Free [...]

June 10th, 2010

Open Clip Art Library Spring 2010 Release!

The Open Clip Art Library has seen tremendous growth and change during the initial half of the year. Today, the platform continues it’s evolution with the Spring 2010 Release!

May 6th, 2010

The Open Clip Art Library Call for Spring Graphics

Developers at The Open Clip Art Library have been diligently implementing updates to the latest 2.1 Release of the site. Contributions and discussion about OCAL’s next steps have been progressing rapidly through platforms like bug reporting and the official mailing list. As preparations for the next iteration begin, the Librarians would like to [...]

March 8th, 2010

Open Clip Art Library 2.0 Release!

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 [...]

March 8th, 2010

Clip Art of the Month: Web 2.0

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.

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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 [...]