Bøger i Dover Pictorial Archive serien

Treasury of clearly drawn illustrations based on authentic design motifs created by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Apache, Cheyenne, Navajo, Hopi, Seminole, and other tribes. Adapted from textile patterns, wood carvings, ceramics, and other traditional craft forms, the royalty-free designs include abstract and floral motifs as well as human, animal, and mythical figures.

Graphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will welcome this treasury of beautifully engraved ornate frames, scrollwork, and other highly decorative designs--800 in all--reproduced from an extremely rare mid-19th-century style book. Comprising 142 plates, the volume features a lavish assortment of ornaments, bedecked with flowers, mythological creatures, and other fanciful touches, all beautifully rendered in meticulous detail. Other striking designs incorporate a rich selection of classical columns, plus heraldic designs--shields, coats-of-arms, seals, and insignias from Austria, Russia, Denmark, France, and many other countries--for a touch of medieval flair or aristocratic ambience. In addition, this collection offers a variety of charming calligraphic alphabets in styles ranging from plain to majestic. An invaluable source of inspiration and a treasury of designs for permission-free use, these distinctive images are ideal for enhancing such print projects as ads, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, catalog copy, and much more.

This superb, comprehensive sourcebook features over 500 splendid motifs adapted from elegant brocades. It includes colorful block prints and woven designs inspired by nature -- trees, leaves, flowers, buds, animals and birds.

Here are clear, accurate illustrations of 163 wildflowers, boldly rendered for easy use in graphic projects, needlework designs, and other applications in the arts and crafts. The flowers are depicted in many different configurations as individual blossoms, and in borders, corners, wreaths, and garlands. Many are arranged in a variety of useful basic shapes -- circles, squares, rectangles, and more.The wildflowers depicted include a number of best-known varieties found in North America -- tiger lily and water lily, snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, thistle, wild strawberry, primrose, and pasqueflower among them. Some are shown in handsome frames. With most appearing in generous full-page and half-page sizes, they make up a superb sourcebook of authentic wildflower designs -- a must for graphic designers, artists, and crafts enthusiasts.

Beasts of myth and legend, writhing foliage, dancing symbols of fate -- this spectacular compendium of 15th- and 18th-century designs features 127 black-and-white illustrations from the far corners of the imagination.

Fascinating, visually encyclopedic exploration of the body and healing arts features hundreds of outstanding anatomical engravings, plus images of diseases, injuries, nursing, therapeutics, treatments, and illustrations from the history of medicine.

This comprehensive archive offers authentically detailed, copyright-free illustrations of hundreds of plants and flowers from around the world. Ideal for graphic artists, designers, and others in the arts and crafts, it will also serve both serious and casual botanists as a convenient reference and key to identification of a broad range of botanical species. Each illustration has been carefully selected from botanical archives for its scientific accuracy, artistic style, and suitability for reproduction. The plants and flowers are grouped by kind, uses, and habitats into seventeen categories, among them aquatic plants, carnivorous plants, grasses, rushes and sedges, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, molds and lichens, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers, and vines. For easy and accurate reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species whenever possible. All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes. Alan E. Bessette, Professor of Biology at Utica College of Syracuse University, is a well-known naturalist, botanical photographer, and author of numerous books and field guides on botanical subjects. William K. Chapman, a biology teacher and member of the adjunct faculty at Utica College, is a well-known speaker and writer on the gathering of wild foods, and the author of field guides to plants and animals of the Adirondacks. Original Dover (1992) publication.

Rich sourcebook of intricate Victorian typefaces and printers' ornamentations -- all copyright-free.

This rich sourcebook of design features 480 magnificently detailed decorative patterns and motifs, most of them originally created in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Reprinted from a rare surviving copy of a Victorian design portfolio, it offers both a boundless, royalty-free source of inspiration and an informal by far-ranging survey of notable achievements in the history of design.These intricate and ornate patterns were taken from silk fabrics, carpets, embroideries, robes, velvet brocades, damask wearings, wallpapers, interior, and other decorative genres that flourished in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere over the course of more than eight centuries.

The intricacy, elegance, and charm of Victorian decorative art continue to attract a broad spectrum of contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople. Now they can draw on this treasury of excellent royalty-free Victorian designs to add nineteenth-century ambiance to almost any project.The author has selected over 160 designs from a variety of periodicals, books, and catalogs from England, France, Germany, and America, including the Album de l'ornemaniste, L'Art pour toous, Foremschatz, Decorative Vorbilder, The Studio, Art-Journal, and Decoration. The motifs reproduced were taken from or intended for fabric, carpets, mosaics, lace, tapestries, metalwork, manuscripts, ceramics, stained glass, architectural details, paintings, and much else.Drawing on native European design tradition as well as the exoticism of the East, the patterns in this volume are predominantly florals and foliates, although there is also abundant abstract figuration, especially from Islamic sources. Textile, package, and graphic designers--any artist or craftsperson in search of authentic Victorian decorative design--will find these designs inspirational and exceptionally useful.

This affordable treasury of rare advertising cuts will add period flair to any number of print projects. Selected from artwork that once decorated matchbook covers of the 1920s and '30s, over 900 copyright-free images comprise a remarkably rich source of immediately usable graphics. From political themes to auto sales promotions, bold black-and-white illustrations publicize a wide range of products and services: restaurants, eating houses and lunch rooms, sporting events, ladies' apparel, beauty shops, food marts, taverns, nightclubs and cocktail lounges, baked goods, fresh candies, choice meats, fruits and vegetables, tourist cabins, motels, camps, and much more. Eye-catching and nostalgic, often enhanced with slogans, these attractive, entertaining designs will be indispensable to commercial artists and designers. They'll also delight Americana enthusiasts, ephemera collectors, and the casual browser.

Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, hundreds of images include serpents, scarabs, and mythological creatures as well as a profusion of flowers, each rendered in authentic Art Deco style.