CHAPTER 5 | Revolutions in Design

WHO:
Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrain, Bart Van der Leck, Gerrit Rietveld, Alexander Apsit, Boris Zworykin, Dmitri Moor, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Gustav Klutsis, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, 

WHAT:

De Stijl, Constructivism, Typography, Journal Design, Architecture, Posters, 

WHEN:

Post WW1

WHERE:

Russia, the Netherlands, Germany.

HOW:

Geometric Abstraction, Logo Type, Woodcut, letterpress

POV:

 De Stijl "The Style" embraced impersonal, universal principals. Admiration for the modern machine drove a style full of geometric abstraction and Machine Aesthetic. De Stijl artists sought a a universal harmony. Influenced by cubism. 

STYLE SUBHEAD:

Constructivism