Drawing designs for a new business card, checking the stamp sizes at my favorite Hollywood stampery, I happened to click on the Clip Art button.

Some innocent enough.  Apples, starfish, businessmen.

Then stranger combinations of clowns and janitors.

Then, violent placements of a policeman pointing his weapon at a fleeing unicorn, pegasus, and surrendering ballerina.  A golf player  tramples a rose,  while preparing to destroy a heart.

I would tattoo any of these on my body.  Including the welder.

Life gets more intense when the doctor runs into the kitchen with a syringe.  I made a graphic of the whole thing, saved it to a few floppys, then mailed them to you so we can get rich.  I’ll call you on my cordless, and we’ll go get a drink.

Also included, nonprofit logos that shouldn’t be available for unchallenged, unofficial inclusion in public business card clip art…

Some great 80’s associations and brands (can you imagine breaking out an official Air Travel Card at a TSA checkpoint?)…

And a vintage assortment of technology logos.  Laser Disc has an optimistically sophisticated graphic.

Tandy’s retro-tech pinpoints a time so charmingly lo-fi and innocent, the fat font radiates cute.

Next commands attention with a dimension-shiftng black and white contrast.

Seeing old Macintosh next to old Microsoft conjures an image of two very different companies than the ones of today.

I’ll admit I have no idea what the majority of these companies do or did.  Clip art!