Customer Reviews

Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

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I was looking for inspiring Islamic-style (NOT specifically Islamic - but nature inspired, Islamic coloring, etc) designs for clay glaze designs. I bought Islamic Design ($27), Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs ($28) and Arabic Art in Color ($12). The prices reflect in the appropriate order (higher $ to lower $) of quality. Here is my comparison:

Islamic Design, has a cd of all the images, 127 pages of images, high quality images. Some of the images are small, but loading them onto your computer allows you to zoom in. Images on disc are bigger.

Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs: has 48 pages of images, a cd, the images are pretty good, the colors are a little dull but maybe that's part of the style? Images are also bigger on disc. The price is a little high for only 48 pages.

Arabic Art in Color: 47 pages of images. The images are of low quality, there is no CD, the colors seem dull, many of the designs look like middle school math projects on graph paper, and MANY OF THE IMAGES ARE REPEATED IN HIGHER QUALITY IN Islamic Design. Pay the extra money for the higher quality. Also, this book was hard to scan close to the binding without having to rip off the pages. I meant to return this but ran out of time.

This book and CD set is user-friendly. You don't have to be super tech savvy to use it. The art is really colorful and gorgeous. I use it for my notes, memos, etc., in my classroom, and my colleagues and students always ask where I got that border or whatever. The graphics are sumptuous!