Art Nouveau
Arts & Crafts
Printer Ornaments
Vector Graphics

Available for the first time is a collection of vector graphics painstakingly hand drawn by Russ Billington. Billington, a professional illustrator and cartographer, has illustrated over 300 books, produced works for may magazines, created detailed designs for corporations and governments all over the world, and has written on the technical and artistic details of design. Billington has changed his focus from the corporate world to his love of Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts design styles and his long-time love of the printing art.

This compilation consists of three separate sets of period designs from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's covering the Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Jugundstil, Celtic, and other styles. Designs on these three sets include printer ornaments from the 1889 Barnhart Bros and Spindler type specimen book, from The Studio magazine published in Great Britain, The Inland Printer, and many books and magazines of the period. These designs include works of artists including Will Bradley, CFA Voysey, Aubrey Beardsley, M.P. Verneuil, and many others.

These three sets consist of 76 highly detailed vector graphic design that can be scaled, flipped, rotated, colored, etc. These graphics are in multiple formats for the widest area of support including CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, All Microsoft branded products including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and many, many more. These formats include .cdr, .dxf, .eps, .ai, and .wmf formats.

Catalogs for each of the three sets can be downloaded here and require the free Adobe Acrobat reader. These catalogs will be included on each CD. You can view the complete design catalogs by clicking on the links below. They will open in a new window and are up to 6 megabytes each:

These formats can be used by word processing applications and desktop publishers. The vector graphics can be used by vinyl cutters, laser engravers, and CNC machines. The solid objects and clean paths can be used for extrusions in ArtCAM and other CNC design applications to create 3 dimensional engravings of any size.

These will be delivered to you on compact disc in each of the formats listed above complete with printable catalogs in Adobe Acrobat format. Please see examples of what you can do with these designs below.

These designs are licensed for unlimited personal use and limited commercial use. These can be used for creation of logos and limited print runs (under 1000 items). These may not be included on any other distribution of graphics or used for magazine or book printing without the expressed written permission of Russ Billington. You may create an unlimited number of prints using these designs if they are used to create blocks for letterpress printing.