De Stijl (updated)

Based on research De Stijl was a form of abstraction from the posters one can notice that the Movement was characterized by the use of the grid, black lines and filled with primary colours.

The principals that formed the basics of De Stijl whether it was for a painting or for a sculpture, architecture or for a piece of furniture or typography it was the rectangular forms with the hues red, yellow and blue. Just because the designs look very basic those simplified elements were not developed in a moment or over night as a matter of fact those simplified elements are a result of years of trile and errors on part of the painers Mondrian, Van Doesber and van der Leck





The De Stijl Movement (The Style) also known as Neoplasticism was lunched in Holland in 1917. Its founder was Theo Van Doesberg and the artist most recognized with the movement Piet Mondrian, The De Stijl Movement rejected pre-war decorative tendencies and pushed cubism to new extremes. It was total abstraction consisting of only the most basic design components vertical and  horizontal lines and primary colours.

For some time in the late 1910, paintings and designs by Mondrian, Van der Lack, and Van Doesberg were quite similar. They reduced their visual vocabulary to the use of priamry colours (red, yellow, and blue) with naturals, (black, grey, and white), straight horizontal, vertical lines, and flat plains limited to rectangles and squares. " Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.

The order was established through the reduction of elements to pure geometric forms and primary colours. De Stijl was also the name of the journal that was published by Theo Van Doesberg. The publication De Stijl is the represents the most significant work of graphic design from the movement, but the ideas of reduction of form and colours are major influences on the development of graphic design as well

Some examples 

The above image is the cover design for De Stil by Vilmos Huszar. Huszar combined this composition with type and Van Doesberg's logo to create a concise rectangle in the center of the page.

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.pg 315

For the title pages for De Stijl Huszar presented a positive, negative figure and ground study in spatial relationships. Restrained typography marked Apollinaire's death. 

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.pg 315

References

De Stijl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2014. De Stijl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl. [Accessed 27 January 2014].

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.