{"id":501,"date":"2008-04-12T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=501"},"modified":"2018-11-21T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:30:31","slug":"type-and-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/type-and-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Type and image&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/beggarstaff_alphabet.jpg\" alt=\"beggarstaff_alphabet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the past few weeks I\u2019ve been working on the design and illustration of several series of quirky greeting cards (to be produced in conjunction with Ev\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/whatclayart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What? Clay Art &amp; Curios<\/em><\/a>). In the research and discovery process, I\u2019ve stumbled across some remarkable sources of inspiration\u2014such as these beautifully crafted images by Sir William Nicolson (1872-1949).<\/p>\n<p>He has been called \u201cperhaps the most influential graphic designer of all time,\u201d and his woodblock prints of the 1890s were amongst the most revolutionary British print images of the era. His graphics used \u201ca treatment of form, with a stylised simplification of shape, and a handling of perspective and picture space which had had no precedent in British art.\u201d Under the pseudonym of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beggarstaffs\" target=\"_blank\">The Beggarstaffs<\/a>,\u2019 Nicholson, along with his Scottish brother-in-law James Pryde (1866-1941), \u201cvirtually created the modern poster,\u201d with its clear outlines and large areas of flat colour.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Thanks for your contribution to contemporary visual language, Sir William!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba For the past few weeks I\u2019ve been working on the design and illustration of several series of quirky greeting cards (to be produced in conjunction with Ev\u2019s What? Clay Art &amp; Curios). In the research and discovery process, I\u2019ve stumbled across some remarkable sources of inspiration\u2014such as these beautifully crafted images by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16969,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}