Title: What Is Minimalist Design?
Headings: What Is Minimalist Design?
What Is Minimalist Design?
Brief History of Minimalist Design
Key Characteristics of Minimalist Design
Famous Quotes About Minimalist Design

Content: Minimalist design is about prioritizing the essential. A minimalist building, object, or interior design is stripped to its core function, realized using limited materials, neutral colors, simple forms, and avoiding excess ornamentation to achieve a pure form of elegance. While the final expression of a minimalist design might appear effortlessly simple, as spare as a poem and as clear as a bell, achieving this kind of powerful simplicity is anything but easy. Minimalist design has continued to grow in popularity throughout the last century, but for every fan there is a maximalist critic who dismisses it as boring or sterile, lacking in imagination and heart. While minimalist architecture and product design can sometimes be cost-effective, eco-friendly, and may ultimately contribute to the democratization and accessibility of good design, it has also become synonymous with a rarified quest for the perfect object, a luxury that only the privileged few can afford and that can lead to its own form of perpetual excess. The Spruce / Michelle Becker
Brief History of Minimalist Design
Minimalist design emerged in the 20th century as a reaction to and rejection of the highly decorative styles of the past, from frilly Victorian architecture to Abstract Expressionist art. Some design historians trace the origins of minimalism to the simplified forms epitomized by the Dutch De Stijl movement of 1917 to the early 1930s and it is widely acknowledged to have been influenced by the zen simplicity of traditional Japanese gardens and interiors and the clean aesthetics of Scandinavian design. The less is more mantra of minimalist design is a quote from legendary German architect Mies Van Der Rohe, who in post-war Europe and the U.S. was one of the notable architects associated with the Bauhaus and modernism who responded to the availability of new materials such as glass, steel, and concrete combined with the building processes brought about by mass production to create minimalist structures that often look as fresh and of the moment as they did decades ago. Minimalist design shares DNA with Modern Architecture, Bauhaus Architecture, Brutalist Architecture, and mid-century modern design . Minimalist graphic design, art, theater, and fashion came into its own in the 1960s.