Illustrator Zara Picken maintains an archive of commercial illustration from the mid-20th century. So much throwback inspiration here!
ZARA PICKEN
The online illustration portfolio of Zara Picken, an illustrator based in Lincoln, England. She works with UK and international clients, creating illustrations for editorial, publishing, advertising and more.
Computer Plant Life
"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize the hell
Historical Illustration Search - a Hugging Face Space by davanstrien
Search and download British Library & Britannica images
Design Reviewed — Graphic Design History Archive
Over 10,000 scanned artefacts, 500+ designer profiles, 25 countries, 150 years of graphic design history. Free to explore.
Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library
Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people. You can use them in product illustration, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, quinceañera invitations, or whatever you want! ⠀
Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art
Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images for free access as more works are photographed and as works of art enter the public domain.
ClipArt ETC: Free Educational Illustrations for Classroom Use
ClipArt ETC provides students and teachers with over 71,500 pieces of quality educational clipart. Every illustration comes with a choice of image size as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. All images are appropriate for classroom use. You'll find no advertisements, pop-ups, or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 free clipart items in a single, non-commercial, school project without further permission. This free classroom resource is supported entirely by the fees received from the commercial users of the site.
Internet Archive
We saw the www.lostlandscapes.org show which was put on to benefit the Internet Archive which suffered from a fire recently. The show featured footage of SF from the 1920s to 1980s. The soundtrack is the crowd, as they yell out recognized locations and ask questions, etc. The Internet Archive (which has the Wayback Machine) is located in a former church. The grand hall is where the show was held, and you can see that the church pews are still in tact. In the alcoves at the back are two server racks which store the master copy of the archives. On the edges are little statues. Those are representations of people who dedicated many hours volunteering for the archive. The one I happened to photograph is Aaron Swartz.
Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux
Lily Seika Jones
Illustration for the 2025 edition of ‘The Last Unicorn’ by Peter S. Beagle, published with The Folio Society.
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