Image Club Graphics: The forgotten company that invented digital stock photography
Exploring the Legacy of Image Club Graphics
Greg Kolodziejzyk started Image Club Graphics in Calgary in the 1980s with a Mac 512k and a LaserWriter, and it became the first company in the world to sell stock photography on CD-ROM. Sold to Aldus in 1994 and absorbed by Adobe, it later became Eyewire and was bought by Getty Images in 1999. I dug through two sampler discs from the Internet Archive to show off the clip art, fonts, and WebMorsels graphics that defined 90s desktop publishing.
In fact, Image Club was the first company in the world to offer stock photographic imagery on CD-ROM disc.