Type Design and Typography / Value of Pattern in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1924

End Date: 12 December 1924

Type: Meeting, lecture and discussion

Description: Lecture and discussion at the Annual General Meeting for the adoption of the Report of the Committee, and for the election of the Officers and new Members of the Committee.

'The new Hon. Secs., Bros. Joseph Armitage and Alan G. Wyon, having been duly elected, came into office forthwith after the retiring Hon. Secs., Bros. John Leighton and Basil Oliver, had withdrawn and robed their successors in the gowns of office [...]'.

C. T. Jacobi gave a 'short communication' on 'Type Design and Typography'. Voysey lent a selection of his designs to continue a discussion on the 'Value of pattern in Art', revisited from a previous evening. The after-interval discussion included L. A. Turner, Napper, J. Leighton 'whose question as to 'The difference between pattern and design' further stimulated the discussion'. Contributors included A. H. Smith, Armitage, Weir, Bayes, Rackham, Butterfield, L. Walker, Kruger Gray and L. A. Turner (AWG annual report, 1924, p. 7).

Policy: 'Founded in 1883, with the object of bringing into closer union the workers in various arts and crafts - architects, painters, designers of all kinds, sculptors and wood-carvers, metal-workers, goldsmiths, and many others - chiefly by evening meetings and discussions on different lines and methods in art. Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).

Citing this record

'Type Design and Typography / Value of Pattern in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1924', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1218726664, accessed 10 Jun 2023]