From the course: Learning Graphic Design History
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De Stijl
- The futurists and constructivists wanted to destroy the old world, and create a new one based on the machine, industry and socialism. The leaders of De Stijl or "the style" in Dutch also rejected the traditions they believed caused World War I, but unlike the futurists and constructivists they wanted to rebuild the world with an approach that merged math and harmony. In 1917 a group of artists, architects and designers came together in the Netherlands to create the movement. Its leader, Theo van Doesburg wrote, "The old is connected with the individual, "the new is connected with the universal." An individual with personal expression might use images and forms that were specific to one political regime, however an individual designer could not own reductive abstract geometry based on mathematical proportions, these are universal forms. They could not be related to the Soviets, the Germans, British or any nation. As I mentioned before, design is a product of its time and place. In…
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