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Saturday, December 13, 2014

A Eulogy To Clip Art

Microsoft announced that it's replacing the cheesetastic images with web-searchable galleries, effectively ending clip art as we know it. The collection of images that have graced so many PowerPoint presentations, family newsletters, and school-field-trip calendars is no more.
Clip art may have been clumsy and weird; it was also earnest, and full of the possibilities that came with our new found capabilities as publishers and creators and communicators. Here's a eulogy for a form of artistic expression that added wonder and whimsy to the words of a youthful Internet.

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