De Stijl

デ・ステイル / 1917–1931 / Style / Geometric Abstraction

Restricts the vocabulary to vertical, horizontal and primary color, building universal order from balance.

Vertical and horizontal / Red, blue, yellow / White planes / Asymmetric equilibrium

De Stijl — De Stijl magazine, vol. 4 no. 3 front cover, 1921De Stijl — リートフェルト シュレーダー邸 1924De Stijl — リートフェルト 赤と青の椅子 1918
De Stijl magazine, vol. 4 no. 3 front cover, 1921 ／ リートフェルト シュレーダー邸 1924 ／ リートフェルト 赤と青の椅子 1918

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Brand systems that grow from few rules · Uniting abstraction with lucid order
Type
A rectilinear sans; treat letters as rectangles too
Composition
Divide the plane with orthogonals; shift the weight off center
Material
White, black, primaries; ration the colored planes
Caution
Not just red-blue-yellow squares. Design the ratios and the asymmetric balance.
Further study
Theo van Doesburg / Piet Mondrian / Vilmos Huszár

Related entries

Source: Wikimedia Commons — De Stijl vol. 4 no. 3

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