DOI Heft:
Nr. 78 (Septembre 1899)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition at South Kensington, 1899
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0297
The National Competition
Mare, is also fairly at home in the technique of
reproduction-drawing. The name of Sunderland
Rollinson, of Scarborough, is another of familiar
memory; he has a distinct individual manner and
.FRONT FFCFATION.
DETAILS OF GARDEN SEAT
BY ALLAN INGLIS
considerable decorative feeling and skill. There
are some graceful and dainty menu-cards by Frank
Jones, of South Kensington, and Frank E. Wiles, of
Cambridge, and a good set of book-plates by Alice
Horton, of Liverpool.
Considering the keen
interest now felt in Japan-
ese art, and, on the other
hand, the rapid develop-
ment of process-printing
in colours, it is disappoint-
ing to find no adequate
designs for colour-prints,
either in the Japanese
hand-method or in the
English mechanical pro-
cesses. There is nothing
to stand beside the colour-
designs of Ethel K. Bur-
gess in the competition of
last year. In the neigh-
bouring field of posters—
few and poor as they are
in spite of the increasing
demands of the market—
the versatile Hilda Pem-
berton once more is easily
first. The objection urged
in the judges’ report, that
a poster is not a poster
unless it has lettering, is
absurdly invalid. The
examiners should know
that it is quite a usual
thing for a poster-design
to be submitted for pur-
chase in bare line and
colour, the lettering being
added afterwards in the
spaces allowed for it, ac-
cording to the needs of
the advertisers for whom
it is secured.
One other branch of
design for printing—far
removed from the field of
commerce and advertise-
ment—is happily repre-
sented ; we refer to the
design of end-papers for
book - bindings. Edith
Jones, of New Cross, and
Geo. Marples, South Ken-
sington, seem to be the
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DESIGN FOR A GARDEN SEAT
by ALLAN inglis {Dundee, Technical Institute)
Mare, is also fairly at home in the technique of
reproduction-drawing. The name of Sunderland
Rollinson, of Scarborough, is another of familiar
memory; he has a distinct individual manner and
.FRONT FFCFATION.
DETAILS OF GARDEN SEAT
BY ALLAN INGLIS
considerable decorative feeling and skill. There
are some graceful and dainty menu-cards by Frank
Jones, of South Kensington, and Frank E. Wiles, of
Cambridge, and a good set of book-plates by Alice
Horton, of Liverpool.
Considering the keen
interest now felt in Japan-
ese art, and, on the other
hand, the rapid develop-
ment of process-printing
in colours, it is disappoint-
ing to find no adequate
designs for colour-prints,
either in the Japanese
hand-method or in the
English mechanical pro-
cesses. There is nothing
to stand beside the colour-
designs of Ethel K. Bur-
gess in the competition of
last year. In the neigh-
bouring field of posters—
few and poor as they are
in spite of the increasing
demands of the market—
the versatile Hilda Pem-
berton once more is easily
first. The objection urged
in the judges’ report, that
a poster is not a poster
unless it has lettering, is
absurdly invalid. The
examiners should know
that it is quite a usual
thing for a poster-design
to be submitted for pur-
chase in bare line and
colour, the lettering being
added afterwards in the
spaces allowed for it, ac-
cording to the needs of
the advertisers for whom
it is secured.
One other branch of
design for printing—far
removed from the field of
commerce and advertise-
ment—is happily repre-
sented ; we refer to the
design of end-papers for
book - bindings. Edith
Jones, of New Cross, and
Geo. Marples, South Ken-
sington, seem to be the
263
DESIGN FOR A GARDEN SEAT
by ALLAN inglis {Dundee, Technical Institute)