Cubism 1

Cubism was the movement ih history which had first abstract style in his designs.Design concept of cubism was independent from the nature, it began using tradition as a way of seeing and a pictorial art The people are calling it the revolutionary movement. It happen in the 20th century. Paul Cezanne is the one who started this movement.  He believed that you should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone. 

Fernand Leger , pages from 'La fin du monde'

The ideal of the cubist were to change the subject which they were gonna translate only for aesthetic but subject to look rather emotionally manipulated than translated naturally. Roots are considered to be found in the work of Pablo Picasso. 

This movement allowed artists and designers to show the figure in two dimensional way or in three dimensional way.

Fernand Leger, The city 1919

By this new approach and different things they tried at this movement, they changed and inspired a lot painters and graphic designers. It pushed art and design into geometric abstraction.

References:

Having a look at History of Graphic Design: Cubism. 2013. Having a look at History of Graphic Design: Cubism. [ONLINE] Available at:http://havingalookathistoryofgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2012/11/cubism_7.html. [Accessed 10 March 2014].

Inkling. 2014. Inkling. [ONLINE] Available at:https://www.inkling.com/read/history-of-graphic-design-philip-meggs-5th/chapter-13/cubism. [Accessed 10 March 2014].