Modernism 1

Modernism is the movement of the 19th century through 20th century. It affected a lot of stadiums of life including: architecture, music, literature, art, etc. Because of mass use of the machines a the time, it was making the designers and every other human to re-think about their purposes. But through all that they still influences designers up till now. In spite of the using a lot of machinery instead of people, it had some of the positive things including mass production, which saved a lot of time for the people. The machinery became a thing related to the modernism.

Important designers from modernism movement are a lot, they can start from the impact of Walter Gropius from the Bauhaus to the modern architect Le Corbusier.
They well known rule was 'Function should always dictate form'.
Modernism is the movement which is considered for the most influential movement of the 20th century. It affected fine arts including impressionism, cubism, fauvism, brutalism and surrealism.

Because of the typography which was used before, they came up with the strict structured grid system with a lot of usage of the negative space and clean rigid type. They wanted to remove all the designs which were over decorated, and full filled with the imagery and type.

De Stijl

This movement was led by group of architect in which was Theo van Deosburg. Their style was to put blocks with black and whites, without any curves. Strict and simple.

They aim was to make established order in design by making and following certain rules. They are going by pure geometric forms and only using primary colors. This, although simple and basic had a lot of influences on graphic designer and the development of design itself.

                                 

References:

The easy guide to design movements: Modernism | Graphic design | Creative Bloq. 2013. The easy guide to design movements: Modernism | Graphic design | Creative Bloq. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/easy-guide-design-movements-modernism-10134971. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

De Stijl : Design Is History. 2013. De Stijl : Design Is History. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.designishistory.com/1920/de-stijl/. [Accessed 8 March 2014].