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

Check out Envato Elements 👉 https://1.envato.market/c/3671954/1159027/4662?subId1=video3 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. Lofi animations by Kai - https://www.youtube.com/@the.spin.doctor --- 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. --- Some selected references: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29786/clip-books-of-line-art-volk-1955 https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol/albums/72157711873400486 http://www.macpaint.org/clipart.html https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1989-09-02_122_35/page/n45/mode/2up https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinion/how-quantels-paintbox-revolutionized-tv-graphics-40-years-ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctLAKFsol0 https://www.duarte.com/experts-share-good-ol-days-of-35mm-slides/ https://archive.org/details/clipartsmart00moll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_gE8gQLIc https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/02/368060012/microsoft-says-goodbye-to-clip-art --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb