Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement

Description

In this course, you will :

• Learning about historical graphic design concepts and approaches can help inform and inspire your current work.
• focuses on Arts and Crafts, a movement defined by a reaction to the industrial age and Victorian excess, as well as a renewed emphasis on the handmade
• explains what caused the Arts and Crafts movement's demise and how its influence on contemporary design lives on

Syllabus :

1. The Victorian Age and Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution
• Victorian excess
• Gothic Revival
• "The Grammar of Ornament"
• The Pre-Raphaelites

 

2. The Arts and Crafts Movement

• Social issues
• The Art and Crafts movement's beginnings
• Gesamtkunstwerk: Total work of art
• Morris & Co.
• The Kelmscott Press
• Small presses: Bookmaking

 

3. Disciplines

• Architecture
• Textiles and patterns
• Gustav Stickley and American Arts and Crafts
• Glass and lighting: Morris and Tiffany
• Typography

 

4. Other Notable People

• Julia Morgan
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Bruce Rogers
• Frederic Goudy
• Will Bradley

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