Functionalism
These movements all derive form from purpose and structure instead of applied ornament, and their reach runs from a school curriculum to an international way of setting type.
Dictionary entry
- Swiss 1950s– / Style
Puts order front and center and makes the information itself the protagonist.
- Bauhaus 1919–1933 / Style
Makes function and play coexist through the circle, triangle and square.
- Modernism 1920s–1970s / Style
Replaces ornament with reasoned form and aims at universality. The particular answers stand as their own entries, and Bauhaus, Swiss, Minimalism and Streamline Moderne are all separate solutions arrived at from this one stance.
- Minimalism 1960s– / Style
Removes elements to maximize the meaning and tension of what remains.