From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
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The evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement
From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
The evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement
- The ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement revived and saved design from slipping into banal mass production. The ideas of quality, pride in workmanship, and design education remains part of our ethos as designers. But the movement was doomed to fail or evolve as technology and urbanization advanced. At a time when new machines and inventions were creating a dynamic and progressive new way of life, the Arts and Crafts movement promoted a return to the past. This is admirable when faced with the negatives of urban life and factory production, but not practical. Some designers, like Louis Comfort Tiffany, incorporated the new technologies like electricity into their work. Frank Lloyd Wright and Julia Morgan incorporated modern engineering and materials in their building. And Will Bradley used large-scale printing to create his advertising and posters. Other designers refused to acknowledge a new world, and definitely maintained their practices of handmade and unique processes…
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