Is there a search strategy that would be more likely to yield visual
design solutions of targets? And what alternatives to the traditional
target images are out there?


I looking for visual design information on Target images / faces from
ads, artwork, and manufactures of target products. I am more
interested in focusing on ads and artwork that use target images as an
element of design. Additionally, manufactures of existing products
with examples, or theory / ideas (which include just text or diagrams)
is fine and although ranked secondary this category should not be
overlooked.

Google has an "Image" search facility that allows one to look for any
type of graphic.  Using the term "target" turns up more 92,000
references on the web and shown in thumbnails (with a complete link if
you want to see a larger image); "shooting target" turns up 2,440.

The more general "target" reveals many alternate visuals to illustrate
a target:
·	projected lunar landing sites
·	the range of data in a graph
·	a 3D street map to show an address
·	destination cells in a spreadsheet (called 'target' cells)
·	distance information on a golf course from a sighting scope
·	test patterns for scanners
·	Target Corporation advertising
·	images of "target" demographic populations
·	nuclear particle experiments with density charts

Google also has an advanced Image search allowing you to examine
graphics by:
*	size
*	file type
*	color/black-white/grayscale
*	domain name

An interesting way to look for alternate images is to enter a foreign
domain name and word for "target."  An example would be from French
sites:
Google Image/Advanced Image Search --
Related to words: cible
Domain: fr

Interestingly dartboards show up much higher on French websites. 
Searching for the word "cible" in TEXT in French shows 138,000
references.  As in English, the word is so widely used for its imagery
that it even lives as an acronym (for library search services in
Lyon).

Indeed, using Google to search in English with the following words
turns up a 133 sources for trap shooting, hockey practice, archery,
telescopes and other uses:
"shooting target" + manufacturers

The concentric lines of a target or the cross-hairs are so commonly
known that they're used in all kinds of designs:
http://www.mooneycaravan.com/images/logo2001d.gif

There are other excellent graphical databases to use in searching for
target images.
The Corbis gallery is all photographs and contains 226 images:
http://shopping.corbis.com/search/productsearch.asp?search=target&pf=

Getty Images has 448 "target" images at the following address, though
there's a registration requirement:
http://creative.gettyimages.com/photodisc/

And you can find at least a dozen similar image listings if you search
for either Corbis or Getty Images in Google, then click the "Similar
pages" link!

If we haven't hit the bulls eye with this response, please let us
know.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Answer by omnivorous-ga on 21 Oct 2002 20:00 PDT

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