Theo Van Doesberg lead the artistic movement De Stijl into popularity and influenced graphic designers for many years to come. Theo Van Doesberg was highly influenced by Wassily Kandinsky. Van Doesberg shifted his style of painting from one that placed more importance on a conceptual style that favored a simplistic geometric style.
Van Doesberg drew a sans-serif modular alphabet that is constructed of evenly weightted strokes. Each character is based upon a square divided it a raster of 5x5. This makes some characters especially the K, R, and X, so unconventional that they must have been unreadable to many readers. the earliesrt version of the alphabet was made up of letterpress ruling pieces. the finished typeface was used in 1919
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Theo Van Doesberg was highly influenced by the painter Wassily Kandensky.
From his work one can notice that Van Doesber did not only favour but he also gave a lot of importance to geometrical forms and that is what lead him to the De Stijl Movement which was of great influence to graphic designers today and for more years to come
One can also notice that his typeface designs and how each character is based on a square which is divided into more smaller squares. Van Doesberg developed these pixel based fonts long before Mackantosh computers.
Although De Stijl was made up of many members TheoVan Doesberg was the ambassitor of the movement, in 1922 Van Doesberg became briefly involved with the dadaism and traveled on a lecture with Kurt Schwitters. At the same time he worked with constructivists and became interested in the Bauhaus.
Van Doesberg applied horizontal and vertical structure to the letter forms and the over all layout of the cover for Klassiek Barok Moderne. For this cover Van Doseberg used his own letterforms. Curved lines were eliminated and sans-serifs typefaces were favored. the type was often composed in tight rectangular blocks. the square was used as a rigorous module for letter form design. Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.pg314
References
Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.
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