The wonderful world of clip art graphics has grown to include illustrations as well as photography. This fast and easy form of expression is available the world over … although PlaqueMaker’s Clip Art Gallery is a beauty. The artwork you find there can be used to personalize any customizable product in our inventory, especially during the holidays!
From Snowflakes and Angels
to Religious Art,
Kids Art,
Polar Bears,
Pine Trees,
Santa Pups and more …
We have literally hundreds of clip art images to choose from, expanding your personalization options in designing your plaques, awards, trophies, signs and gifts for the holidays. We include free customization on every order with one piece of free artwork; additional clip art selections incur a $10 art fee. Each clip art web page includes examples of how to use that clip art on a custom product. Work with our customer service specialists by emailing help@plaquemaker.com if you need help designing or have any questions at all.
Brief History of Clip Art
Before the use of computers in desktop publishing, designers would hand-cut images from publications such as books, newspapers and magazines and use them to design another work of art or publishing project. Artists would paste the “clipped art” onto a paper layout of the new artwork with rubber cement, then add words through phototypesetting. The finished layout, called a mechanical, is photographed by a camera, then sent on to the printing presses for publication. Wow – this was a time consuming process! Ultimately, the cut-out printed art came to be known as “clip art.”
The first library of professionally drawn clip art came standard on the IBM VCN ExecuVision PC in 1983. The introduction of the Macintosh’s graphical user interface (GUI) in 1984, plus the LaserWriter laser printer and PageMaker in 1985, made desktop publishing available on consumer desktop computers. After this, the use of clip art really started to take off. With the advent of electronic clip art, the term clip art became a household word.
