Welcome to MyDrawingBoard's Services Listing.
Where the best designers in the stone trades offer you their work for the asking.
To be brief:
this site is like a Yahoo Group with a massive
museum behind it. Like a Group has a monitor, we
have an exclusive bunch of artists and dedicated
folks who tag the point man with the job
of curator. Because we are a group, we change
often. We had online design tools way back in the
late eighties; we once were a dial-up provider as big as AOL;
the public could design, make contact with retailers and purchase
all kinds of things here- boredom of these things made us
drop the services. You'll find, as a member, that when you -
just one of the members - tells the curator something
annoys you, it often vanishes quickly.
Now, to be at length.
As a member of the My Drawing Board family you are given several
on-line advantages besides unlimited downloading of any and all our plotter
and cutter ready designs - over 70,000 of them presently posted. Nearly
600,000 archived and more added daily.
You also have full access to our libraries where you'll find
resources
like state seals, flags of all nations, vector and raster images of
saints,
Hebrew translations, charts and lots more.
Click here to review the libraries.
My Drawing Board is an archive.
As such it is member supported. Educators and students
have special legal access with mission statement. All others
pay their
fair share of our end-of-year operating fee. Example: if it cost us
12 bucks to run this
year and we have twelve members, the fee for next year is $1 for the
year
(paid in monthly installments.) All members have unlimited
rights to download all files:
hundreds of thousands of designs, components and raster files.
Anyone of these files is worth the cost of membership alone!
Click here to join.
BE FOREWARNED!
This is an archive: A not-for-profit collection business model
of vector graphics posted for the access of educators, designers, memorialists
and qualified interested parties. The majority of art found at MyDrawingBoard
belongs to the artists themselves and to private (and public companies).
Such artists gladly share the art with you for purposes of education, memorializing,
sign making, etc. and for purposes not specifically concerned with
the graphic itself.
You are not permitted to sell, share or otherwise keep our files if
you are not a paying supporter.
We guard this right strictly and strongly with the force of U.S.
Federal Law and international
copyright laws. And we have a bunch of lawyers all too happy to have
local authorities
confiscate your computers if you disregard this warning.
Take this warning very seriously.
To learn more, contact us.
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The
MyDrawingBoard of today is a massive archive and collection of data
bases. Originally these archives were those of ADSTONE DESIGNS, a
large memorial design studio created in 1972, which closed its doors
in 1995, and had begun archiving their designs electronically in
1981. That archive had been shared over a BBS (Bulletin Board
Service) since September of 1981. ADSTONE DESIGNS' owner and head
designer was Joe Auricchio. Now retired from the memorial
trade, Joe and a small group of designers wanted to share their work
on a not-for-profit basis. Thus GemRock.com was born in 1995 to do
just that - share designs. GemRock had been many things to many
people, but has since found its niche. During 2001, Gemrock changed
its name to MyDrawingBoard.com when prompted to do so by another
archive which decided to turn its designs over to MyDrawingBoard.com
and close their doors. This opened the gates for designers from many
different industries to discover and employ our new, more universal
site. Artists contributed freely and some with great passion.
Contributing artists receive free access. Artists do not
surrender the rights to their work. The designs are on loan to My
Drawing Board. Since all contributors send a single file in .DXF
format (most often DXF) Joe also has the chore of converting the
DXF's into the several other formats we offer. Over the years we
have had some of the best artists from across several trades
contribute. We pride ourselves in that. Names like Ken
Dyal, Bill Piesher, Moses Lietz, Hugo Calderara, Mark Turco,
Peter Maramorato, Cameron and Shelby Moore, Ed Zawalsky, Derick Earp,
Kimon Brown and, of course Joe Auricchio. Many lesser known artists
are also represented at the Drawing Board. |