The Design Library Book III
Penny Brown
Search Press
11 April 2012/ ISBN: 9781844487257
How-To Books/Design / Paperback + CD ROM
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Here is the
third book in Search Press new Design Library. Remember their bestselling
Design Source Library series? This takes the idea into the 21st
century with each title containing a hundred motifs in print plus
a CD ROM with them all in both .jpeg and .tiff format.
The first page has a brief introduction to what lies within, and
the rest of the book contains just the designs themselves. Each
page features a line drawing or two and in this book you can find
borders,corners and motifs depicting fabulous beasts, intricate
knotwork, spirals and more. Designs are taken from the British Isles
and continental Europe from the Iron Age La Tene style onwards to
the Middle Ages.
You can find
designs taken from the Book of Kells, from stone carvings, Viking
motifs and more are in here for a wide variety of art and craft
projects. As with the earlier Design Source Books these are not
copyright free, but the small print at the back permits you to use
up to fifteen of the drawings on a single project as long as you
give a quote as to where they came from. What projects you use them
on it up to you; scale them up or down and use them for whatever
you want. I look forward to seeing the rest of the titles in this
series and enjoy not having to scan them into my computer to use
them like I did with the earlier series!
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