Introduction & Chapter One


Read the Introduction for the book…
It traces the development of printing and movable type from Gutenberg up through the Victorian Age.  Pay particular attention to the Nineteenth Century as your first class project will be a the design of a Victorian Era Travel Poster in the vernacular of the era.

Read Chapter One…
It traces the emergence in the middle of the 1800s in Europe of  "Art Nouveau" – a new way of looking at art and visual communication.  Pay particular attention to the influence of Japonism, Mucha and symbolist (sensual) imagery, and the work of the Beggarstaff Brothers.

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