Friday Finds: The Art of Simple Shapes & Text
In 1915, Kazimir Malevich painted a single solid black square on a linen canvas and called it art. He called his abstract style "cubo-futuristic," leading the way into a movement later called, "suprematism art." Abstract art is art that is the opposite of realistic, so suprematism art was an abstract style comprised of just basic colored shapes, such as squares, lines, rectangles or circles and so on. A sample of Malevich's art: The German Bauhaus school of design was influenced by this Suprematism art style: Here's an example of a Bauhaus graphic design. Here you see basic shapes of color combined with black text design: When I recently redesigned my Zazzle store category thumbnails, I set out to create designs consisting of just a interesting black text accented with nothing but a few simple colored shapes. Once done, I like this look so much , I was inspired to expand some of those same designs for broader use on fabric, wall ...