Stylogeny combining Arts × Skønvirke

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Arts × Skønvirke

Its parent's framed, bordered book page carries Bindesbøll's heavier, abstract ornament well.

From the research on Skønvirke (Danish Art Nouveau, Bindesbøll)

Mix them and make something Arts Skønvirke

SouvenirArts × Skønvirke1860 · 1890
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Arts, their arrangement from Skønvirke, the finish from Arts. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Arts & Crafts Movement Skønvirke (Danish Art Nouveau, Bindesbøll)

Type from Arts
Colour from Skønvirke
Form from Arts
Composition from Skønvirke
Surface from Arts

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Arts

Souvenir

EB Garamond; Arts used Golden Type and Troy and Chaucer

Text · Skønvirke

The Danish answer to Art Nouveau, around 1890–1920, seen in print above all in Thorvald Bindesbøll's work: heavy, roughly drawn hand lettering locked into dense ornament of swelling tendrils, cloud and wave forms. Labels, logos, covers and vignettes are framed and centred, in black with one or two flat colours. Bindesbøll kept his ornament abstract; the wider movement added stylised wild flowers, insects and sea life. Both trade Art Nouveau's thin whiplash line and female figures for blunt, swelling masses. The 1904 Carlsberg label is still in use in adapted form.

Libre Caslon Text; Skønvirke used Thorvald Bindesbøll's hand-drawn label lettering, the 'roughly sketched letters' of the Carlsberg Pilsner label (1904), which Carlsberg has carried over in adapted form to other beers and The Carlsberg wordmark (Bindesbøll, 1904), hand-drawn and still in use

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Skønvirke, with a counter-accent from Arts. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Arts & Crafts Movement Skønvirke (Danish Art Nouveau, Bindesbøll)

  • #efe7d3 ground · 36%
  • #1b1a17 ink · 14%
  • #d4a32c accent · 18%
  • #a33224 accent · 14%
  • #2c4f80 accent · 10%
  • #2f6b3a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #efe7d3;
  --ink: #1b1a17;
  --accent-1: #d4a32c;
  --accent-2: #a33224;
  --accent-3: #2c4f80;
  --accent-4: #2f6b3a;
  --font-display: "EB Garamond", serif;
  --font-text: "Libre Caslon Text", serif;
}

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The two styles

An ornate botanical design surrounds a large blank cream oval, with curling green leaves and red, blue, and ochre flowers. Two blue-and-yellow birds face inward near the top, and a narrow leafy border has square floral decorations at all four corners. 1860–1920 · Western Europe, North America Arts & Crafts Movement A British-led reform movement that answered industrial shoddiness with honest handcraft, medieval models and the ideal of joy in labour. In graphic design it is embodied by William Morris's Kelmscott Press: dark Jenson-derived and gothic types, handmade paper, and wood-engraved borders and initials dense with stylised foliage, treating the book as one integrated, hand-made object. An ornate, vertically symmetrical poster surrounds the large blue word “NORDLYS” with curling green leaves, rust-red flowers, blue flourishes and golden dots on a cream background. A narrow botanical border encloses the composition, with circular floral motifs in the corners. 1890–1920 · Northern Europe Skønvirke (Danish Art Nouveau, Bindesbøll) The Danish answer to Art Nouveau, around 1890–1920, seen in print above all in Thorvald Bindesbøll's work: heavy, roughly drawn hand lettering locked into dense ornament of swelling tendrils, cloud and wave forms. Labels, logos, covers and vignettes are framed and centred, in black with one or two flat colours. Bindesbøll kept his ornament abstract; the wider movement added stylised wild flowers, insects and sea life. Both trade Art Nouveau's thin whiplash line and female figures for blunt, swelling masses. The 1904 Carlsberg label is still in use in adapted form.

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