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.

40 attractive, royalty-free motifs printed on nonreproducible blue backgrounds. Center type, create accurate layouts.

Among the most successful applications of the curvilinear style of Art Nouveau movement were the frames, borders, and similar decorations that filled the books, magazines, posters, and advertising of the time. Today, a century later, working artists continue to rely on Art Nouveau ornamentation, embellishing a wide range of copy and typography with fin de siècle aesthetics. This indispensable collection presents 315 royalty-free Art Nouveau frames and borders for the designer, artist, and advertiser looking for an affordable way to enliven any graphic message. Choose from floral and foliate motifs, butterflies and peacocks, female figures, sensuous cherubs, asymmetrical shapes, and undulating lines — in a variety of shapes and sizes. All illustrations are directly and immediately usable. Printed in crisp black-and-white images on repro-quality paper, they are perfect, inexpensive embellishments for whatever your graphic project — menu, invitation, advertisement, greeting card, catalog, or poster.

301 versatile decorative motifs in highly popular style. Squares, rectangles, ovals, numerous geometric shapes.

Exceptionally practical collection of copyright-free, ready-to-use Art Nouveau borders offers the working artist over 800 elements. Several configurations, many with reversed images. Printed on repro-quality paper. 832 black-and-white illustrations.

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.

24 full-page, 16 half-page frames provide maximum amount of interior space for copy and illustration. Elegant, distinctive designs include florals and foliates. Royalty free.

Eye-catching collection of 48 decorative black-and-white borders — Art Nouveau, Art Deco, geometrics, florals, foliates — on timesaving, nonreproducible layout grids. Blue background grids conveniently disappear when photographed, leaving bold, clear border designs. 32 full-page frames and 16 half-page frames — copyright-free. 48 black-and-white illustrations.

A fantastic source or reference book for anyone seeking inspiration for Art Nouveau projects or ideas. With over 250 line illustrations, this book is packed with ideas that can be used to create a whole range of decorative projects. Here you will discover simple and ornate borders, stylised flowers, beautiful birds and butterflies, figures, fruit and much more. You do not need artistic skills, just photocopy or trace the motifs, pictures and patterns, then transfer them on to your project pieces. You will soon discover how easy it is to make unique designs for yourself, or friends and family. The first section of the book offers a gallery of finished pieces which show how the illustrations can be used to decorate cards, boxes, panels, a bookmark and a cushion. The techniques vary from simple colouring and layering to glass painting, parchment craft and embossing. This book uses material from the Design Source Book series, Classic Glass Painting and Art Nouveau Cards by Judy Balchin.

Borders are among the most needed of all graphic design elements. In this volume graphic artists will find a particularly handsome selection of borders and frames with the accent on the lavishly decorative and ornate. In styles ranging from rococo to high Victorian, they offer an elegant and eye-catching setting for copy of all types, from ads and invitations to title pages, menus, announcements, and more. Printed on nonreproducible blue layout grids for easy and accurate placement of copy, these ready-to-use borders will appeal to graphic artists, librarians, teachers, just about anyone looking for a unique way to frame their message.