clip art
noun
: ready-made usually copyright-free illustrations sold in books, as part of a software package, or through a website from which they may be cut and pasted or inserted as artwork
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Riffs and tangents ensue, with Trixie and Katya expanding on the episode’s topic, surrounded by animation, clip art and text that have been added in the edit.
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Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
Each dispatch evokes the handmade feel of the zine era, or the early-two-thousands blog era after that—from the newsletter’s luridly Photoshopped collages, crammed with clip art, to a spastic writing voice that careens down the page in a stream of florid, hypebeast doggerel.
—Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
Shitty clip art?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
The logo was a pair of clip art maracas.
—Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
Portions of a 2021 presentation used during those sessions include clip art cartoons some may find objectionable.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
The whole initiative, the most successful in CDC public-relations history, cost taxpayers all of $87—for clip art.
—Wendy Orent, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
Print out our Halloween clip art of bugs and bats on card stock, cut them out and display in frames.
—Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
Each dispatch evokes the handmade feel of the zine era, or the early-two-thousands blog era after that—from the newsletter’s luridly Photoshopped collages, crammed with clip art, to a spastic writing voice that careens down the page in a stream of florid, hypebeast doggerel.
—Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
Shitty clip art?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
The logo was a pair of clip art maracas.
—Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
Portions of a 2021 presentation used during those sessions include clip art cartoons some may find objectionable.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
The whole initiative, the most successful in CDC public-relations history, cost taxpayers all of $87—for clip art.
—Wendy Orent, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
Print out our Halloween clip art of bugs and bats on card stock, cut them out and display in frames.
—Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
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