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.
Because all work uploaded to the site is licensed to the public through Creative Commons’ “Public Domain Dedicated” license, anyone can download and use the entire SVG library for any purpose, including both free and commercial works!
thumbnail previews of user-created content now enrich the site’s visual presence. It has now become much easier to search and download clip art that suits any situation. The new site layout includes an updated theme that emphasizes user interaction by placing more importance on the portal to upload created work, as well as displaying selections from the ever-growing collection.
Behind the scenes, members of Fabricatorz, including, among others, Bassel Safadi, Michi, Ronaldo Barbachano, and Brad Phillips, have helped push The Open Clip Art Library onto the Aiki Framework. This new PHP + MYSQL platform allows programmers to easily create and work with content management systems from the web.
I am super excited about this release, and I encourage everyone to help support Open Clip Art version 2.0 by registering (if you haven’t already) and uploading artwork of your own!.
Read the entire Announcement 2.0 here and at the Fabricatorz post.
