Book Cover for Grunbegriffe der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst

THEO VAN DOESBURG and LASZLO MAHOLY-NAGY

1925, Netherlands

"basic concepts of form making"

Cover Design for De Stijl Journal

 THEO VAN DOESBURG

1922, Netherlands

type is asymmetrically balanced in four corners of implied rectangle

N and B (nieuwe beelden > new images)

scale change

Cover Design for De Stijl Journal

 VILMOS HUSZAR + THEO VAN DOESBURG

1917, Netherlands

if applied art (designed objects) absorbed pure art 

spirit of art could permeate society

everyday objects = art

1917, Netherlands

Piet Mondrian was part of movement

abstract, geometric style > equilibrium and harmony for art

clear vision of reality with mathematical structures

restricted visual vocabulary of color, shape, and vert/horiz lines