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Maybe it's just metafilter making me paranoid about copyright issues...

silkygreenbelly — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:46:44 -0800

If I slap a ms word clip art image on a business flyer, are their any legal issues to take into consideration? I was approached someone about whipping up a flyer for her cleaning business. Nothing special, just the basics with "...maybe a little broom or something." My understanding is that she'd use it to post on bulletin boards, or hand out to interested people as kind of a business card. She's an incredibly sweet woman who is eeking out a living and trying to make a better life for her and her kid, I don't want to expose her to any potential problems.

Also, what is a good way to sum up "weekly, monthly and 'custom cleaning intervals'"?

Vintage Illustrations

madmamasmith — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:16:42 -0800

I am trying to find vintage/retro images from old childrens' books and other sources for my wedding invitations and save the date cards. Specifically I am interested in bunnies, deer or anything wilderness related and children with butterfly nets. I have googled endlessly to no avail. I keep getting these horrid clip art images ..i have seen flickr sets but nothing that suits my needs ..i will try to attach an example....please help!

http://beautifulpaper.typepad.com/oh_so_beautiful_paper/invitations/page/5/

http://paperedtogether.com/portfolio/images/s,%20tag.jpg

How to Resell Clip Art

matimer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:47:57 -0800

How to find clipart reseller programs? There is a ton of clip art sites, if i wanted to create a partnership with clip art companies where I sell their designs on an individual basis is their a platform for this or do you know any good clip art resellers? I've found sites that have a low cost per individual design. A lot of these clip art sites looks like they've been online for 10 years and I've emailed a bunch of them without response. Also there is a ton of shady ebook type sites spouting on how you can get rich selling ebooks... which is not something I'm interested in.

Medical clipart collections on CD?

richmondparker — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:42:27 -0800

I'm trying to find a CD with quality clipart / illustrations of nothing but the human digestive system. I've found a lot of CD's that offer general medical imagery, but nothing that has ONLY the digestive system. I've found some sites that offer individual images, but most of these are at least $200 per image. Anyone know of a cheaper source?

String art project

levijk — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:21:18 -0800

Looking for images of simple continuous line art, such as clipart or icons. Looking for some continuous line art for a craft project made of string, something like these, only without the $239 price tag. Public domain images online or in a book would work. Thanks.

Multicolor fonts?

genefinder — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:31:17 -0800

I am looking for a multicolor font with a Christmas theme to make a list of numbers. These numbers will be pulled by participants in a Yankee Swap to determine the pecking order. Do multicolor fonts exist and if so, where can I find some freebies? Should I be looking for clip art numbers or something else?

Graphic design advice for handouts and pamphlets

supercrayon — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:37:19 -0800

I work at a University in a department that produces a lot of handouts and pamphlets for students. The problem is that they're horribly laid out and look dated. I'm going to have an uphill battle to convince my co-workers that they need to be changed, so in preparation can I get any advice about what is involved in producing good handouts and pamphlets? Any answers that involve why MS Word clipart is bad are welcome.

Seeking a certain "pen is mightier" clip art piece.

bradlands — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:45:32 -0800

I am trying to find a very specific piece of clip art, which I scanned at a low-resolution during the latter part of the last century and which I now need at a much higher resolution for a print project. It is a woodcut image of a person hefting a fountain pen above his head; you can see a small version of it on the front page of my personal website, which is listed in my profile. I'd like to find an original print source or a high-res digital source. I've browsed every Dover collection I can find and several other sources, but can't find it. Can you?

Where to find clip art of ballerinas and rainbows?

eileen — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:54:58 -0800

Anyone know where to find nice images (clip art or otherwise) of rainbows and ballerinas? I am helping a friend paint her daughters' rooms in her new house tomorrow. The girls want a rainbow on the wall of one room and a ballerina on the other. We have an opaque projector to use, so I'm looking for images that could be easily copied, almost cartoonish I guess. No shading or anything like that. But I'd like to find cool ones! Since it's just for the house we can grab the images from anywhere, but I don't even know where to start...thanks!!!

Just a sketch or two...

brianvan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:34:19 -0800

I'd like to hire graphic designers for simple sketches and illustrations. I'm looking for decent quality work and I'm willing to pay fairly. How would one go about this? What should I budget? I've been doing web design work for a little while now, but my biggest limitation to business growth is that I'm not a particularly proficient illustrator. I'm not very good with results (not terrible either), and it takes me a long time to sketch ideas or make things come alive either on paper or on the screen. Once I'm beyond the sketch phase, things move pretty quickly.

I've tried to practice with it, but there's an immediate need for decent-quality artwork that I just can't fill by myself with my limited schedule. Searching stock databases to find specific types of illustrations takes too long, and the prices for exclusive use are often beyond my reach. I know some illustrators personally, but their professional rates are staggering for the small projects that I've been doing. I don't need a month's worth of graphics work, just a few hours here and there.

If I wanted to contract out work like simple sketches and graphical elements (repeating background textures, buttons, decorative elements), what could I expect to pay for such things? Do graphic designers have hourly rates or rates for simple elements like clipart sketches (not entire websites)? If I start commissioning graphics work, I want to offer fair and competitive prices for the work.

Any info about this or related stuff would be appreciated.

Ex: Take a look at the selection of the Pin Up Girls images on Fenderskirts Vintage. I'm not big into vintage illustration per se, but the silhouette images (Pinup132) are good representatives of the things that I'd like to include in my designs. I can do a lot with vectorized cut-outs and quality clip-art. It just takes me too long to make them myself with my dinky mouse and shaky hands. Full color illustrations could be nice for larger projects, but I don't know much about those either.

(BTW, I'm willing to accept that some things just take a long time to complete and that my ideas might not be feasible for small projects with tight budgets. So please do tell me if I'm crazy.)

Moste Odiferouse Emissione

rossination — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:22:34 -0800

I'm looking for some (free) stock art borders to use on certificates that I'm printing on the computer (like this). They don't have to be fancy, or classy looking (these are for immature, jokey certificates like "loudest fart", etc), but variety is appreciated. I've been trying to look for stuff like this, but I'm not having much luck, surprisingly. I know that there are programs that have lots of "wizards" for this sort of thing, but .tiff or even .jpg to use as a background would be much, much easier.

Disappearing libarry books!

soviet sleepover — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:06:40 -0800

Dear artists/collagers/librarians, I have a two-part question, and the first part is a doozy: I'm looking for a specific book of copyright-free clip art/etchings & I don't know the title. The second part: recommend your favorite books of copyright-free etchings! Specifically, I'm looking for a particular book of copyright-free clip art/etchings. It's a very thick book (~300+ pages) with thousands of images, devoting whole pages to beetles, for instance, as well as to fish & undersea creatures, printmaking equipment, early machines, architecture, the human body from bone structure to fully clothed, etc.

Almost all the images are monotone: black & white etchings from the 18th & 19th centuries (I think). Towards the latter part of the book whole scenes show up, rather than a page full of 50 winged insects.

The book itself (not jacket) is off-white (or tan, or khaki?), about 1.5x wider than it is tall, probably something like 8"x12", & not an oversized book. In my old library it was a reference book in the clip art & copyright-free images section (I'd call them, but last time I was back, it was missing from the shelves!).

Part 2: If there are any similar books of illustration-style etchings that you really like (& that are public domain), tell me about 'em! I'm looking for old-style etchings (like this), not the silhouettes or more recent-looking drawings that the Dover clip art collection mostly features. (I'm mostly looking for bizarre plants & animals, as well as medical illustrations.)

ISO American Indian Clipart, logos, graphics...

Jujee — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:49:25 -0800

I have searched and searched online for American Indian art to no avail. More specifically - I'm looking for the kind of bold clip art (thick lines) or logo-type of art associated or signifying with each of the following: Shawnee, Lakotas, Iroquois, Ojibwe, Cahokia, Cherokee - animal art is fine as well. Are there any symbols of the same type of art that might relate to law or justice??. Am I looking for something that doesn't exist? Thanks in advance for any help!!!

How to find legal verbiage for selling clip-art?

edheil — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:23:51 -0800

Where can I find appropriate verbiage to sell people sets of my artwork for use as clip art? I want to be able to say "All the art available here, and all future art available here, is available for you use, royalty-free, all you want. This license is non-transferable. Other people, who haven't paid me cash like you have, may still use this art but must abide by the Share-Alike CC license on the site."

I'm new to MeFi and I assume it would be gauche self-promotion to include a link to the site I want to do this for, but I'll be happy to share it (and more details of what this is all about) on request in the comments.

Vitruvian Man clip art?

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:14:13 -0800

Anyone know where I can find a print quality (near 300 dpi) source of Da Vinci's "Vitruvian-Man" that can fill an 11 X17 poster? Baring THAT, does anyone know of a site that has print quality downloads of famous arts works that are in the public domain?

Searchable free photo archives

mecran01 — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:20:25 -0800

Your favorite searchable free photo archive?

Help finding clip-art.

Lizc — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:10:01 -0800

Clipart Filter: I am working on a power point for work for the boss and need to get some clipart regarding the situations where one would take lots of shit/negativity for doing the right thing. (The word funny was bold and underlined in the email, so please make it funny... explodingdog probably wouldn't fly, but far side would)
If anyone has any pictures or clipart handy and could link me, I would much much appreciate it.

Simple clip-art of a white daisy with a yellow center

widdershins — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:54:52 -0800

OK, I give up. I have been googling and googling, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for: a simple clip-art/icon of a daisy. No colored background, just a white daisy with a yellow center - black outline (or similar) is OK. Picture or drawing is fine, but it needs to be a very simple design that will look cute printed on white background. Free is preferable since this is a one-time thing. I've already tried most sites that feature clipart in the url, plus countless others. If any of you can think of a good site, I'd really appreciate the help ~

Is there a cheap/free source for super cool, retro-talking heads clipart?

mecran01 — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:42:23 -0800

I've got a chance to do a cartoon for our local paper. Our town has 8,000 residents. So anyway, I'm lazy and want to rip-off David Rees' Get Your War On. If I want my own super cool, retro-talking heads clipart do I have to scan it in myself, or is there a cheap/free source out there I can plunder? Many thanks.