Design Movement: Arts and Crafts

The Arts and Crafts movement emerged in Britain in the 1860s as a reaction against the degraded quality of industrially produced goods, advocating for the integration of skilled craftsmanship and considered design in everyday objects. In typography and printed matter, the movement produced work of exceptional care , William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, founded in 1891, set new standards for book design that influenced fine press printing well into the twentieth century. The movement’s influence spread to America, where designers like Bruce Rogers extended its principles into commercial book design, and to the Continent, where it fed into Art Nouveau and Jugendstil. The archive documents Arts and Crafts graphic design through book covers, type specimens, and printed ephemera. See also Art Nouveau and Jugendstil and 1890s graphic design history.