History of Graphic Design................Day 4

-The arts and crafts movement comes after the Industrial Revolution.

-John Ruskin in the philosophical leader to figure out how to structure society after the Industrial Revolution.

-The Union of Art and Labor
-your work should be in service of the society.
-artisans and craftsmen come together to create the Gothic Cathedral.

Ruskinism

-William Morris is very well known for his pattern design.

*The wood plates he used are still being pressed today.

-How can art and craft combined to make beautiful work.
-There is a huge flaw in this logic.....hand made is more expensive.
-Morris gains an interest in book arts.
-He creates a font called Golden an Oldstyle typeface.
-He does this to go back to the origins of printing.
-Illustrations by Walter Crane.
-William Morris fonts he created:
-Troy / Blackletter
-smaller troy / Chaucer
-He creates a font called Golden / Oldstyle.

-William Morris 1834 - 1896
-1891 Kelmscott Press
-1860's - 1920's Arts and Crafts Movement

Bruce Rogers
-Roycrofters / Roycroft Books
-expensive
-pragmatic business
-affordable work

What a wonderful day in History of Graphic Design. We finished watching a video on William Morris and went on to discuss some stuff about Roycrofters and their amazing books. I really think these books are pretty amazing and now that I know that they are a historical kind of design for books I'm a little intrigued. We then took advantage of the day by reviewing what we've learned the past couple of classes for our exciting test on this following class.....EXCITING!!!!!!! We went over the origins of type and how it developed from the Romans all the way to William Morris, who was a big over achiever by the way with his hand-made wood prints of extremely intricate designs. We then looked at the practice test and some helpful ways to study for this test. Really helpful ways to remember things so thanks Dorian!! Well that was that day in History of Graphic Design. I'm so ready for this test.