5This comprehensive anthology of graphic cuts -- created by talented artists decades ago -- offers today's professional illustrators and commercial artists a wealth of engaging designs. Suitable for a vast number of advertisements and announcements, for use on greeting cards and menus, as well as for a host of craft projects, these attractive cuts will be indispensable to anyone wanting to add a nostalgic touch to a project or assignment.
Painstakingly selected from magazines, newspapers, books, and catalogs of the 1920s and 30s, here are over 1,000 distinctive, boldly outlined drawings and silhouettes. They embrace a wide variety of categories:
Food and dining restaurant scenes, delicatessen counters, shopping baskets filled with food, plates of mouth-watering desserts, waiters and waitresses
Amusements magicians, fortune-tellers, card tricks
Children's activities fishing, flying kites, reading, running, jumping rope
Women's fashions hairstyles, hats, furs, jewelry
Animals dogs, cats, cows, sheep, chickens
... and much, much more.
Casual browsers will be delighted with the volume's engaging visual commentary on early twentieth-century American life. Artists and illustrators looking for royalty-free graphics filled with period charm will find them in this extensive collection.