Celtic Designs CD-ROM and Book

by Dover Publications

Intriguing archive of 96 black-and-white designs features the sinuous interlacements, stylized mythical creatures, abstracts, geometrics, and other elements that give Celtic art its unique distinction. Clear, crisp, professionally drawn motifs will lend themselves to a host of art and craft purposes. Included disc contains all designs in book.

Genres: Reference, Art

64 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 1997

About the author

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be scarce or historically significant. Dover republishes these books making them available at a significantly reduced cost.

Dover is well known for its reprints of classic works of literature, classical sheet music and of public-domain images from the 18th and 19th centuries. Dover also publishes an extensive collection of mathematical, scientific and engineering texts. It often targets its reprints at a niche market such as wood working.

Most Dover reprints are facsimiles by photo process of the originals, retaining the original pagination and typeset, sometimes with a new introduction. Dover will usually add new and more colorful cover art to its paper-bound editions. They retitle some books to make them more in line with modern usage and categorization. For example, the book Woodward's National Architect was retitled A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide.

Reviews

[Sarahanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for "clip art" - especially useful for animals & for initials.

[Brooke Penney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this many years ago, but I've used it quite a bit. I actually pulled an idea for a tattoo out of it, then tweaked it to make it my own design.

[Scott Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice sampler of Celtic designs with many repeats to past collections. This collection does have all the images in different sizes which helps with visualizing in your work. The included CD includes all the images in multiple formats.