Why Clip Art Was Everywhere... Until It Wasn't

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Clip Art was an inescapable part of growing up in the 1990s, but it was more than that. It was a reflection of the technology that shaped the decades between the birth of the PC to the age of the smartphone.

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0:00 The Tier List of Art
1:23 Analog Clip Art - Volk Clip Books
3:19 Sponsor: Envato Elements
5:14 1984: MacPaint and the Mac ecosystem
8:17 Sidebar: Broadcast Graphics vs Home Computers
9:13 1989: Scanners and Autotrace
12:29 Case Study: Ron & Joe's Art Parts
13:58 1995: CD-ROMs and the Clip Art Collection Wars
18:06 1998: Digital Projectors level up PowerPoint
19:58 Microsoft Goes All in on Clip Art
22:18 The Post-Clipart Age & The Birth of Corporate Memphis
24:27 Reborn or Rebranded? Rightfully reviled?
25:58 No soul, no value? What Clip Art Says About Us.

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Some selected references:

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29786/cli...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol...
http://www.macpaint.org/clipart.html
https://archive.org/details/sim_edito...
https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinion/...
   • Adobe Illustrator 88 (Promotional Ins...  
https://www.duarte.com/experts-share-...
https://archive.org/details/clipartsm...
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https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechc...

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