Teacher prepared podcast discusses the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the decorative arts, furniture design and graphic design. Important artists include William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee in Britain as well as Gustave Stickley and Elbert Hubbard in the U.S.A. Mention is made of both the Kelmscott and Roycroft private presses.
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Arts and Crafts: Design in a Nutshell (2/6)

This influential design movement began because people got fed up with machines. The Arts and Crafts movement promoted economic and social reform, sticking up for ordinary workers and craftspeople.

(Part 2 of 6)
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