The consumer market, however, embraced it. Mom and pop shops produced their flyers with clip art pieces left and right. Every birthday party invitation card for my kids included at least five balloons and three cakes. Churches, PTAs, the special interest group of left-handed ornithologists, travel agencies, and the Salvation Army churned out newsletters peppered with clips. As with everything else that it is overdone and overused, there came a lull.
Clip art is, however, on the rise again.
I ll bet most of you have a few hundred clip arts even if you are unaware of it. You can hardly buy a piece of software these days that would not come with a clip art collection. On the Web There are thousands of personal Web sites that offer free clip art. You can waste a lot of time scrolling through home pages after home pages in search of a specific clip object. Even if you combine these terms with additional qualifier words to limit the search, the result can be overwhelming with way too many irrelevant hits.