Yesterday in class we listened to Amanda talk about the Victorian Period. She covered the design aspects of this period, a brief history of Queen Victoria, who inspired the English during the British Industrial Revolution, and she also went over the creation of posters. The style of posters and broadsides were probably similar everywhere during this time period, but her description of posters is what I remember most about her presentation. They used numerous different typefaces with several different sizes. Their entire poster was filled with text and sometimes incorporated pictures. I found them to be very difficult to read and hold my attention span, but it might have something to do with what I'm used to seeing today. It seemed as if everything was either screaming for my attention, or was so small that I couldn't read it.
I don't follow British history too much, but I was surprised to hear that Queen Victoria wasn't even the King's daughter, but his niece. I might have missed the reasons for requesting his niece, maybe he didn't have a daughter or son? Maybe he had an obsession with his niece? Either way, I thought it was pretty interesting.
I thought it was interesting that the British were inspired by the Islamic culture, mainly because their styles are very different today. I never would have thought they would have inspired each other this far in history.
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