The Open Clip Art Library has you covered. More than 10,000 Scalable Vector Graphic images—the kind that still look smooth when you resize them—are posted there, freely licensed for use in ...

T he first library of professionally drawn clip art was provided by VCN ExecuVision and introduced in the IBM PC in 1983. It offered images to be used in presentations and newsletters.

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...

Microsoft today announced Clip Art is getting a new source for its images: Bing. The Office.com image library that powered the service in Microsoft Office has been killed off. If you’re creating ...

Microsoft's Office team has announced that it is axing the Office.com Clip Art online image library. Users will begin to be directed to a new image source; Bing Image Search.

Except maybe for the Bing part. For years, Microsoft’s Clip Art library was a way to get images when finding some quick art to illustrate a Word document or Powerpoint presentation was difficult.

Curiously, Microsoft's announcement disappeared from the internet yesterday afternoon, but even if its clip art library gets some kind of reprieve, none of this will mark the death of bad design.

Most notably, clip art -- vector art -- is infinitely resizable; bitmap images, which account for about 99.99% of the images on the web (all JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs), cannot be gracefully scaled up.

Microsoft explains, “The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop. Usage of Office’s image library has been declining year-to-year as customers rely more on search engines.” ...

Why Microsoft is getting rid of those iconic illustrations. — -- Clip Art, the iconic collection of images beloved by students and professionals around the world for their whimsy and ease of ...

The Open Clip Art Library is an expansive collection of clipart that lives in the public domain via a Creative Commons license. All of the art at this site is available for download.

Clip art. Microsoft has just announced that it’s killing off the last trace of clip art in its Office products, instead pointing users in need of imagery toward Bing Image Search.