Sunday, 21 Jan 2006 10:47pm GMT Good news for all you Inkscape-using Open Clip Art artists out there; the newest installment of the open source vector graphics editor should be released very soon. If you want to give it a test-run, inkscape.org have released a preview source release that is available for download and use. If, during your testing of the preview release, you encounter any major crashes, you can log them on the inkscape bug tracker

Thursday, 18 Jan 2006 03:28 pm GMT Congratulations are in order for one of the Open Clip Art Library's resident librarians, Molumen; as his design was chosen as the winner of the the Inkscape 0.45 About Screen competition. Molumen's Design, which samples an Open Clip Art Library image also utilises the blur filter which makes it's debut as a feature in the upcoming 0.45 release of inkscape. If you see Molumen around, make sure you congratulate him on his great work!

Sunday, 17 December 2006 11:28 pm GMT Frog on a Lily Pad
by Leland McInnes

Monday, 4 December 2006 12:28 am GMT Sheep and Magnifying Glass
by Michal Pecyna          

Monday, 27 November 2006 10:41 pm GMT Hammer & Spanner by AndyFitz

Monday, 20th November 2006 - 12:16:41 a.m.GMT You may or may not know of the existence of the Open Clip Art Library's sister project the Open Font Library. The name pretty much explains itself, however the overall goal of the project is to collate a collection of open fonts for anyone to use for any purpose. Discussions on the mailing list have been vibrant over the past month; since the implementation of ccHost for the Open Font Library. (you can view the archives here)The project is still in the very early stages of progression and many decisions still need to be made, so if you have a background in type design, or like the idea of having a vast library of open fonts, have a look at the open font library website and the wiki

Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:29 pm GMT Coffee Mug & zaz 965          

Sunday, 12 November 2006 11:24 pm GMT Bottles, Lawn Mower &Holly                     

Sunday, 05 November 2006 11:11 pm GMT Orc and Red Griffin found by Liftarn          

For all the artists out there that use inkscape to create and edit your SVG images, you might like to know that there are some nifty new features that will be included in the upcoming 0.45 release of inkscape. Probably the most exciting new feature is the support for SVG filters. This functionality was developed by the Google Summer of Code 2006 participants. The only filter that is enabled to date is the Gaussian Blur. "With it, you can softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects: paths, shapes, groups, text], images. Clones inherit blurring from their original, but they can also be blurred independently from the original (you can create blurred clones with Tile Clones, too). Both the fill and stroke of an object are blurred together, creating semitransparent margins that smoothly blend into the background." - Inkscape Wiki, 0.45 Release Notes