E A Séguy was a French decorative illustrator who produced 11 books of patterns and illustrations in the early part of the 20th century. A distinctive feature of both [...] Continue Reading…

Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium was the first recognised zoological book and the frst attempt to describe all of the world’s known animals. Published in Zurich 1551 – 58, it [...] Continue Reading…

French illustrator George Barbier led the ultra fashionable “Knights of the Bracelet” school of artists throught the 1910′s & 20′s. He designed theater and ballet costumes and worked with [...] Continue Reading…

The following prints are taken from a 1922 book ‘Architectural Drawing’ by Wooster Bard Field who was an Architect and Assistant Professor of Engineering Drawing at the Ohio State University.

These [...] Continue Reading…

A few posts back, I spoke about the value of getting distracted and splitting onto different tangents when searching online for public domain resources for product creation. This week, [...] Continue Reading…

Well I finally got around to completing my World’s Fair listing on eBay (complete with snazzy slideshows) check it out—–>link

It took me a whole lot longer than I thought [...] Continue Reading…

Today I have been experimenting with the possibility of using a slideshow to display my images for an eBay listing. The reason I wanted to do this was that [...] Continue Reading…

Whenever I come across an interesing image when browsing the net, searching for public domain material, I always save them into my ‘Pictures’ folder. This is done with good [...] Continue Reading…

I wrote in recent post about acquiring public domain images from Wikimedia Commons and how to find them. Today, I wanted to show you a wonderful set of images [...] Continue Reading…

Fashion in Design
 I’m a big fan of the art Nouveau school of design and, looking through a scan I found of a design textbook from the 1890′s got me [...] Continue Reading…