{"id":7574,"date":"2009-09-09T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2011-01-19T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T11:27:08","slug":"the-handy-book-of-artistic-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/the-handy-book-of-artistic-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Handy Book of Artistic Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMan, this book is chock-full of late nineteenth century letterpress design. I tend to lean towards simple design, but there is something altogether fascinating in the full-on fanciness of that period. Whether you like intricate embellishments in your graphics or not, this book does provide a context for the rise and fall of this particular aesthetic, which (don&#8217;t you know) all ties into the trends and preferences of today. It&#8217;s also interesting to see how both artistic printing and<a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3348\/3256720710_ec75d04464.jpg%3Fv%3D0&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/lovedaylemon\/3256720710\/&#038;usg=__hl_VFndJ3aI9w29ztUL9xZ_COiY=&#038;h=313&#038;w=500&#038;sz=114&#038;hl=en&#038;start=3&#038;sig2=jRhcSMpiNa4GjSNnpfkpzA&#038;um=1&#038;tbnid=5KPg4qViK6-LnM:&#038;tbnh=81&#038;tbnw=130&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dlate%2Bnineteenth%2Bcentury%2Binteriors%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&#038;ei=7N-nSrz9CMnp-Qb74tCLCQ\" target=\"_blank\">late nineteenth century interiors<\/a> share a &#8220;penchant for spatial saturation, eclecticism, and excess.&#8221; (pg.172)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authors Douglas Clouse and Angela Voulangas explore the style&#8217;s origins in the British Aesthetic Movement and analyze its distinctive features: idiosyncratic color harmonies, eclectic choice of type and ornament, compartmentalized compositional strategies. They also present a landmark portfolio of letterpress printing samples, drawn from some of the most important public and private print archives. More than 150 examples of period ephemera, printers&#8217; own tour de force promotional pieces, and specimens of type and ornament are reproduced, many for the very first time since their initial circulation more than a century ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$40.00 (&pound;23.50), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papress.com\/html\/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568987057\" target=\"_blank\">Buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Handy Book of Artistic Printing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/artistic-printing-book-1.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, this book is chock-full of late nineteenth century letterpress design. 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