What's in a Quote?
Would a quotation by any other design smell as sweet?
"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.” - Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Hey all! I’m excited to share a new format with you: museum style, exhibition posters! At 18x24 inches, these are much larger than our standard 11x14 size (almost 4 times as big) and are great when you want to fill a wall with only one design instead of 3 or 4 prints.
I’ve also put the quotations in a back-seat to the author and work. They are still there for reference, just below the artwork, but this new design definitely puts the author front and center.
A long long time ago on an e-commerce platform far far away, I released a few art prints with some of my favorite literary quotations. I won’t rehash too much except to say that at the time, putting a literary quotation on anything seemed like an unusual thing to do, and I was pleasantly surprised to find how big the tribe of literature fans was. From a creative point of view, it has been an absolute pleasure to bring these quotations to life. But from a practical point of view, it’s a real challenge to figure out what authors, works, quotations and designs people will like. So while the artwork has remained largely the same, the design layouts have evolved a few times over the years, to make those different elements more or less prominent.
Way back in 2011 the prints were 13x19 and featured the author name more prominently:
Then around 2015, because folks expressed interest in a more manageable size for collections, we switched to 11x14 and made the quotation and author name less prominent:
While I mostly prefer this look and size, there was definitely something awesome about having the author name larger and having a piece that could fill up a wall by itself. I’ve made the prints all available in a larger size for a long time, but because they were printed on demand they were a bit pricey. So to satisfy that different need and make larger prints more affordable, I settled on a new design format in the style of traditional exhibition posters that celebrates the author and work more directly while still making an aesthetic statement.
Each large format art print commemorates iconic authors, beloved books, and poignant quotations, offering a bold and timeless keepsake for literature and design enthusiasts. I think they work quite well this way, and hope you do too!
What do you think?
If you like this format I will add the other designs to the line as well, and most importantly would like to start adding some more contemporary works to the collection. Would that be of interest to you all? Assuming I use this new format, what would you like to see added?
