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Sorry for the wait. Stay tuned. Big things on the horizon!

Today is a day of supreme accomplishment, as I helped push out The Open Clip Art Library’s latest 2.5 Release! Throughout July-August, I had been working behind the scenes, utilizing Bassel Safadi’s excellent Aiki Framework Platform, in order to deliver an exciting new feature to OCAL’s home page: An Activities Section!

During the past few Open Clip Art Iterations, we instantiated a few new features and incentives (like the Themed Clip Art Package Releases), but we had been having trouble notifying the artists that these activities were taking place. After some brainstorming, the Fabricatorz came up with the idea for headlines on the front page. I was in charge of the design and implementation of this new Section, which we hope will make giant leaps in the direction of greater OCAL Community involvement. The goal is to keep an updated list of current and recent goings-on in the OCAL Universe.

I’ve also written articles on WorldLabel and Fabricatorz further detailing the Official Press Release.

More Fabricatorz work has come in the form of Avatar Updates. I’ve created shiny new avatars for nearly every member of our Fabricatorz Team! Most recent additions include Barry Threw and Christopher Adams:

Be sure to have a look at the new OCAL Features, and let me know what you think. More updates to follow!

My work with The Open Clip Art Library continues to flourish this month. I designed and implemented the new Activities section that can be seen, front-and-center, on the home page of OCAL.

The Activities Section will alert users of the Community to the newest incentives for content. Contests and Community-created Packages are just some of the events visitors can expect to come across.

The newest incentive comes in the form of a new Themed Clip Art Package. Everyone should upload some Fall 2010 content for next months OCAL 2.5 Release!

We are also planning on putting together a larger Holiday Package for Halloween 2010 at the end of September, so be sure to tag “halloween2010″ work through the end of September.

Check out the Fabricatorz post for more info!

This month’s package called for Spring flavored clip art, and our Community answered with some dynamic and elegant work that can be downloaded in it’s entirety or individually, using the key term spring2010.

The images found peppering this article are all works created by me, specifically to be included in this awesome set of work. My Open Clip Art Library username is pianoBrad. I’ll be creating around 10 new images each month for these themed releases, so check my OCAL account often, if you like the work, to see what’s new!

As always, The Open Clip Art Library is reaching for higher ground with a new release targeted in one month. Any artists interested in contributing to a summer package release should register and upload their work tagged with “summer2010.” The Librarians send out a special thanks to all involved in this incredible Spring 2010 Release and look forward to the fun and creative new work underway for the next one!

For more information, please have a look at the official press release.

On March 8th, 2010, the web graphics community was pleasantly surprised with the announcement of Open Clip Art Library, Version 2.0. Following the release, OCAL experienced a creative Renaissance, posting some of it’s best numbers ever, including 1300 new registered users and nearly 1000 new clip art submissions!

Building off of the success of the new format, The Open Clip Art Librarians have quickly followed up with The Announcement of The Open Clip Art Library, Version 2.1!

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“Clip Art of the Month” for March 2010 is now up on WorldLabel’s Blog. Drawing inspiration from the new Open Clip Art Library Release, this new blog takes a look at Web 2.0 Design and what it means for clip art users.

The Web 2.0 aesthetic leaves a very distinct calling card on modern websites, and it’s important to examine why these elements can improve the internet landscape. The WorldLabel post fully explores these new features. Readers are encouraged to share their thoughts!

Visit Open Clip Art Library to sign up and learn how you can contribute!

During the last few months, I have been actively involved in promoting the Open Clip Art Library through work behind the scenes, as well as “Clip Art of the Month” posts celebrating the contributed works for WorldLabel.

Fellow Fabricator, Jon Phillips co-developed The Open Clip Art Library in early 2004. From there, it has quickly grown into a massive collection sporting over 24,000 scalable vector images, all created by 1200+ artists from around the world.

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Recently, while helping my girlfriend try and come up with ideas for a graphic arts class, I scribbles something on a piece of paper that ended up getting stuck in my mind:

A few days passed, and I decided I wanted to try and come up with a semi-organic way to create hatching similar to the above idea on a computer. I’m currently developing using processing. If it turns out, I’ll port it to multiple applications.

You can take a look at a small practice file I’ve been working on the past few days here.