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Mondrian’s Minimalism Revolution Less is more. That is the basic premise of a minimalist color poster design. The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in the years 1920-21 courageously introduced the style of minimalism in painting. His simple geometric compositions, together with the use of only three basic colors, blue, yellow, and red, in combination with black and white created a new venue for the graphic designers. He
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demonstrated that with simple relocation of these colors, and experiment with the proportionality of various square surfaces one can achieve extremely different ambiances and various feelings. For the graphic designers who intend to convey a message with a minimum interference from the extraneous elements his experiment in minimalism was a valuable gift.
say the Mugabe was a minimalist. Bulldozing a third of His country down and minimasing the value of money to so little, hyper inflation caused thousands people to starve.
Literature-Inspired Quote Posters by Evan Robertson While reading his paperbacks, Robertson developed a habit of underlining the most grabbing lines. He noticed that some of them inspire his hand as much as his head, so he started combining them together with graphic visualizations.
Robertson says he uses the lines that he finds while traveling or sometimes stumbles upon by accident, and sees them as hyperlinks, which can “leave the rest of the story behind and open up a new window of ideas, insights, musings�. His plan is to complete 50 posters a year, having done 24 already. Among those are lines from books by Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway and JeanPaul Sartre.
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Typographic Science Posters by Kapil Bhagat To celebrate the Science Day in India, Mumbaibased graphic designer Kapil Bhagat created a series of minimalist typographic posters featuring the names of famous scientists. Each design cues to an invention, a theory or an achievement that the scientist is known for. For example, Newton drops an “O” to illustrate gravity, a massive “C” in Copernicus reminds us that he figured the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe and placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center. Not only do the posters look great, but they also allow you to memorize who did what.
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Minimal Movie Posters From Caelin These were curated by Caelin, from Minimal Movie Posters. She’s from Australia and she sure got a taste for nice posters. Hollywood has been doing the same posters for the past decades and it’s being really annoying to see such similar posters.
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Overview Of Dada Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual
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conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war. According to Hans Richter, Dada was not art, it was “anti-art.” Everything for which art stood, Dada represented the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.
Our cover image was created from a selection of different Dictaors face all ripped
apart, overlayed and reconstruted to make one master dictator fac. It felt most fit to use
Dada for our image As Like Anti Art we are its about the message and image. The image
contains images of Hitler Mugabe, Kim Jong Il and others.
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Dada Photography Federico Cabrera Gilles et Dada is a state of mind. That is why it transforms itself according to moments and events. Gilles et Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers. The mirror that fell, the broken pieces float high, they form a house that will reflect us all to enlighten the path to the dream that we haven’t dreamed yet. Model: Pirita / Photography and post production: Federico Cabrera
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Richard Vergez Richard Vergez is a CubanAmerican visual/sound artist. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and currently works and resides in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. His work makes use of white space and abstract structures, using mixed media such as collage, found objects, and unconventional mark making. He uses tape loops, field recordings, echo guitar, and various electronics in his sound work. Richard will be completing a BFA in Graphic Design this semester at Florida Atlantic University. His visual work has been featured at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood as well as numerous blogs and international publications such as PluzUltra, Argentina and Mekanik Copulaire, France. His musical collaborations with choreographer Ana Mendez and the Psychic Youth collective have been presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Art Museum, and the De La Cruz Collection. Currently available for freelance
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Swiss Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text. The
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style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named
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