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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Elam, Kimberly

Titel

Geometry of design: studies in proportion and composition

Erscheinungsjahr

1901

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Examines the relationship between mathematics and beauty, with particular reference to examples of design from the 20th century. The author discusses proportion in man and nature, architectural proportions, the concept of the golden section, and root rectangles, and analyses their respective configuration and expression in advertising posters by Jules Chéret, and Constructivist and Bauhaus artists including Max Bill, Bruno Monguzzi, and Josef Müller-Brockmann, tourism posters by Tom Purvis and A. M. Cassandre, the Vormgevers poster (1968) by Wim Crouwel, chairs designed by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, and Charles Eames, typography by Inge Druckery and Jan Tschichold, domestic appliances by Braun, and the new shape Volkswagen Beetle.