The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones
The first six volumes of the collection dedicated to The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones are completed and ready to ship.
The first part of this monumental collection of vector graphics includes six periods of the history of decoration:

#501 - Vol. 1 - Ornament of Savage Tribes*
#502 - Vol. 2 - Egyptian Ornament
#503 - Vol. 3 - Assyrian and Persian Ornament
#504 - Vol. 4 - Greek Ornament
#505 - Vol. 5 - Pompeian Ornament
#506 - Vol. 6 - Byzantine Ornament

Preview all the published Volumes of the Grammar of Ornament from one page.

The Illuminated Manuscripts Project
Alfredo Malchiodi and the AlfredoM Graphic Arts Studio’s Illuminated Manuscripts Project is committed to hand-drawn re-creations, in electronic vector format, of masterpieces of illumination and illustration art. Our CD collections of exquisite manuscript and book art in electronic vector format has range from early Celtic Art, the Middle Age and Renaissance, to the Victorian Era’s Arts and Crafts Movement and early 20th century’s Liberty and the Art Deco styles.

We select the graphic elements (borders, headers, capital letters, ribbons, laces, etc.) in pages of those ancient masterpieces and individually redraw them by hand in EPS vector graphic format using Wacom graphic tablets in applications like Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand and Corel Draw. Our graphic objects can be used by graphic designers, web masters, librarians, teachers, students and anyone who appreciates the fine arts of our ancestors. No particular skills or complicated graphic software is needed to give a different personality to documents, letters, invitation, cards, banners, brochures, posters, etc.
Every CD includes EPS, WMF, TIFF and GIF file formats and a catalog for viewing and selecting the images.

Illuminated Manuscripts Art - Clip Art Vector EPS

The finest examples of Illuminated Manuscript Art and Illustration Art are now as easy to employ as Clip Art for your special events. Our CD collections of high quality clipart in eps vector format and high resolution tiff format are perfect for announcements, engagement and wedding invitations. Create your own guest invitations for your shower, a wedding, reception, anniversary, or a bachelor and bachelorette party. With unique elements design baby shower announcements, invitations, reception invitations, and all your wedding correspondence. Borders, laces, bands, floral elements, illuminations, illuminated capitals, etc. can be used with your graphic program or word processor and printed from either from your home printer or sent to an outside printer. Illuminated caps and letters in different styles with matching small capitals and letters add elegance to all your correspondence or make authentic your Renaissance and Middle Age wedding invitations. Matching Renaissance invitation borders provide an artful impression.

Vector Graphics
Each decorative image and element has been meticulously hand-drawn by AlfredoM in vector format.
Resolution independent vector graphics insures high quality reproduction at any size, allowing also complete latitude for modification of each graphic element. Many advanced designers will find the inclusion of the vector file versions on this CD a very desirable feature.
The collection also includes versions of the more common pixel-based file formats, some of them used in web graphics

AlfredoM Graphic Arts collection of royalty free Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance clip art, historic ornamental backgrounds, illuminated initial capital letters and borders. We are the first to redraw in eps vector format Middle Age and Renaissance manuscripts art.

I have found this poem in an Italian web site , it has nothing to do with our work, but I love it, I love the graphic power of those words that border the surreal. I wish I was able to translate it in English.

ARIDI DESERTI
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Aridi deserti, scabrose rocce corrose dal tempo, sconfinati oceani dissolti in orribili abissi, laghi argentati, linfe vitali di vulcani spenti. Monti severi ed oscuri celano pericolosi anfratti. Non v'è luogo che la vita non colga. Non v'è luogo che la morte non colga. Non v'è cuore, che l'amore non colga, ma, per ogni grido di gioia, mille e più mille grida di puro dolore.