Walter Crane’s Line and Form (1900) collects the lectures he delivered as a teacher at the Manchester School of Art, setting out his philosophy of drawing and decorative design. A leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and a celebrated children’s-book illustrator, Crane treats line as the fundamental element of all design and traces how form is built, ornamented, and given expressive life.
Richly illustrated with the author’s own examples, the book moves from the rhythm of contour to questions of proportion, pattern, and the relation of drawing to architecture and the crafts. It remains a graceful introduction to design thinking. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.