The Design Library, Book IV
Judy Balchin
Search Press
11 April 2012/ ISBN: 9781844488155
How-To Books/Design / Paperback + CD ROM
Amazon
Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Here is the
fourth book in Search Press new Design Library. If you are new to
this idea then think of the bestselling Design Source Library series
and add in a modern extra everything, a CD ROM is also enclosed
in the book, both .jpeg and .tiff format.
There are a hundred designs in here and this book is an ideal companion
to Judy Balchin’s other book in this series Heart and
Flower Designs (also reviewed on this site). As with all the
books the first page contains a brief introduction to the topics
and the rest of the book contains just the designs themselves. Each
page has a line drawing or two and in this book you can find lots
of individual blooms, borders, frames, corners, mandalas and motifs
of various sizes. Many of them have an art nouveau style to them,
while others are in the style of folk art, Ancient Egypt, India
or the Orient to suit a wide variety of projects. Please remember
they 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. It is easy
to scale them up or down on the computer and not having to scan
them in first certainly cuts down the time you have to spend on
the preliminaries of your chosen project. I look forward to seeing
the rest of the titles in this user friendly and modern series.
Reviews of other titles by this author
Heart
and Flower Designs
Outline
Stickers
Making
Christmas Tree Decorations
Making Christmas Cards
Decorative
Initials
Glass
Painted Projects
Handmade
Fairy Cards
Designs
From The Book of Kells
Papercrafts
For Christmas [w/Polly Pinder]
Celtic
Alphabets With Borders and Motifs
Compendium
of Celtic Crafts
Party Masks
Glass
Painted Greetings Cards
Peel
Off Greetings Cards
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