Art Deco continues to enjoy a solid revival, especially in the areas of commercial art and advertising. The bold geometric patterns that shocked the Paris set world in 1925 are universally employed today in every form of media. Now this inexpensive collection offers the working artist hundreds of royalty-free, ready-to-use Art Deco borders and ornaments, including corners, frames, and cartouches. Dynamic designs combine circles, squares, crescents, and other shapes with palm trees, female figures, sunbursts, and more. Use them alone or combine them with numerous line bars of varying widths to create exciting advertisements, greeting cards, catalogs, menus, invitations, or any other project. Printed in crisp black-and-white images on 32 glossy repro-quality plates, these motifs are an incomparable value for today's package designer, graphic designer, and advertiser. Dover Original.
32 extremely useful royalty-free border designs. In addition to a complete border configured in circular, oval, square or rectangular format, each page also features many different lengthening and embellishing elements.
This collection of 72 full-page black-and-white Art Deco designs offers artists and craftspeople royalty-free, ready-to-use borders, frames, and motifs. Abstract geometric forms contrast with foliate and floral elements in dynamic designs. Useful in graphic arts, textile and upholstery design and more.
A giant and varied collection of borders and frames for the use of artists and designers. Drawn from numerous first-rate sources, this book covers practically every style, mood, and form as interpreted through the whole range of art movements and historical periods.
This attractive and practical collection of ready-to-use borders features 16 different decorative floral designs artfully composed of hundreds of integrable floral modules in many different styles and widths.
Compiled by a master craftsman and teacher at the world-famous École Boulle in Paris, this first-rate, all-encompassing collection of decorative Art Deco wood designs includes an array of motifs — trim and elegant in their simplicity. Included are boldly styled geometrics within frames and borders, dynamic designs combining circles, squares, and abstract figures, as well as starkly elemental versions of blossoms, masks, creatures of the animal kingdom, and other wood carvings. Open spaces within some of the patterns allow the incorporation of ad copy or other messages, while the varied textures and superb finish of the plates will add graphic excitement and period flavor to fabric design, stationery, and other art and craft projects.
These 8 royalty-free alphabets, an inexpensive source of eye-catching typography, will add a novel touch to ads, posters, signs, and other print projects. Presented in 3 sizes, the fonts include Old Glory, Automation, Tonight, and 5 others. Each typeface also contains numerals and punctuation marks.
A fabulous cornucopia featuring over 100 Art Deco designs. Taken from architecture, jewelry, fabrics, stained glass, and other media and adapted to fit today's graphic design needs. Corners, frames, centerpieces, geometric designs, jukebox designs, an alphabet, and much, much more. Highly imaginative.