Title: Design Minimalism: What, Why & How. - SitePoint
Headings: Design Minimalism: What, Why & How.
Design Minimalism: What, Why & How.
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Minimalism? That’s kinda like not designing something, right?
So, Minimalism is just keeping things simple, then?
Where did Minimalism come from?
De Stijl Movement
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and "Less Is More"
Traditional Japanese Design
Neo Minimalism
Minimalism Color Palettes and Shapes
Fonts in Minimalism
Helvetica
Mr. Phone
Brad Ulrich’s Experiment
Site Templates/WordPress Themes
Photoshop Patterns/Brushes
Minimalism in Action
Google
Craigslist
Modern Architecture

Content: Minimalism? That’s kinda like not designing something, right? Not really. Early styles such as Art Nouveau were so
finely decorative that frames and wallpaper that often
overwhelmed the objects they intended to ‘decorate’. As the name implies, minimalism is certainly not a lavish style, but it is not an absence of design either. As a 60’s grandchild of the Bauhaus movement, minimalism continued the trend of artists rejecting the lavish, highly-decorative styles of the past. Decoration had become so intense and dense that it had begun to undermine the function of the objects it touched. Minimalists asked the question: How much can you strip away from an item — paintings, scupltures, buildings, furniture — without losing its essential purpose and identity? So, Minimalism is just keeping things simple, then?