Brief 4 Arts and Crafts inspiration

A nice coincidence from the meeting with Tom was I had been researching old American Furniture advertising and one piece I had come across turned out to be one of Tom's major inspirations.

Gustav Stickley
(March 9, 1858 – April 21, 1942) was a designer, furniture maker, editor and the leading proselytizer for the American Craftsman style, an extension of the British Arts and Crafts Movement.

Al Ik Kan is Flemish for 'to the best of my ability'

craftsman typeface

gustav-stickley inspiration

The typefaces he uses are characterised by being Serif and always capitalised.