The British Library Images

The British Library just release over a million scanned images to the public domain via Flickr.

Wahoo!

In this digital age easy access to our joint heritage of copyright free images (because expired, because old) is a new Gold Rush.

Quick!  Design something using THESE.

I dibs this one...

Public domain image from Queen Mab, a novel - from the British Library

Meanwhile, my board is red hot (and only partly because it's upstairs in August).  Lotso designing going on.  I'm working out the kinks in placing a set and audience seating in Kitchen Dog Theater's new home, The Green Zone, for the up-coming show The Dumb Waiter.  I spent yesterday evening getting a start on the cheerful-kindergarten/decayed-New Orleans set for Fun House Theatre's A Schoolbus Named Desire.  The set for Lovers and Executioners at Circle Theatre in Fort Worth is building... I spent a few days carving a foam fountain-dolphino for that.  And I'm coming to grips with The Addams Family for Mainstage Irving Los Colinas - first production meeting Friday evening.  (Friday evening?)  Busy, busy.

Public Domain Images

I found a great new source for public domain images: The Graphics Fairy.

There's a land office rush going on in cyberspace as designers and bloggers (and especially designer-bloggers!) upload the treasury of Victorian images that are out of copyright.  The Graphics Fairy is another rich source.  (I can see I'm going to need to scan in my own old-book illustrations.  "Fly!  Be free!")

From the Graphics Fairy - thanks! - here's an appropriately Halloween-y sample image:

public domain image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy