Less is More?
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- omahadesigns
Do you think this is true?
Is less design usually more sophisticated?
- zoozoo0
I would say that less is more if the "more" your adding to your design is redundant and unnecessary.
- <-- in this case, a little 're would have helped a lotmonospaced
- 're is redundant and unnecessary.freshdude
- you know what I meanmonospaced
- Right now and edit function would be ideal, too.zoozoo
- utopian0
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci
- monNom0
minimalism only really works in contrast to decorative work.
Both can get the job done. These days you might make more of a statement by having something super embellished, since minimalism is the flavour of the day.
- minimalism isn't 'flavor of the day". it's timeless design, and has been around forever. it's not a fad..CanHasQBN
- CanHasQBN0
Yes, it is more sophisticated. That's why it works so well for high-end brands.
- omg0
ugh, less is less dude. more is more. get it right.
- Josev0
Milton Glaser:
"In terms of beauty, I never understood why designers felt they had to believe in anything. Because one lesson of history is, even the most contradictory movements turn out to be beautiful. You can't trust style. It's only a device for encoding material in a certain form, so why develop a sense of allegiance? It's a kind of design fundamentalism. I mean, the old slogan 'Less is more' was bullshit. What does that mean? Sometimes less is more; sometimes less is less. A Persian rug is not less beautiful than a solid-color rug."- I do love minimalism, though. Unfortunately my clients dont like is as much as I do.Josev
- "it as much as I do"Josev
- designing for clients suckomg
- so true, omgJosev
- I once had a client say "if we see paper, we don't think we're getting our money's worth" -- meaning they didnt want white spaceJosev
- space.Josev
- leave it to the client to lost sight of what's most importantomg
- Lost-- loseomg
- waterhouse0
"Less is a bore."
- Robert Venturi
- This coming from a guy that designed this monstrosity!
http://i.imgur.com/V…utopian
- This coming from a guy that designed this monstrosity!
- tredesigns0
less is more when more "doesn't work/is too much"
-- frank Lloyd wright
- jaylarson0
Moar Milton Glaser
"Less is not necessarily more. Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realise that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. However, I have an alternative to the proposition that I believe is more appropriate. 'Just enough is more.'"
- loool0
ok I understand that doubt...there is that debate going on for years in art/design, but what then with these pieces:
then all of this would be useless...actually there is no formula for a god art/design...the overcrowded stuff can look awesome, so as minimal stuff...different aesthetic, different rules, but not a single one rules over another one imho- these are aesthetic things, over all these pieces are simple as they beuuuuuu
- i wouldn't let the design and art discussion cross over in this context. Design requires simplicity for a reason, art does not.uuuuuu
- ...not.uuuuuu
- Whilst in most of these exacmple, there's an enormous amount of detail, the colour palettes are dead simple to compensate.Continuity
- compensate.Continuity
- *examplesContinuity
- Llyod0
More or less.
- omg0
less noise.... more design
- ukit20
It's all true people...
1. less is more
2. talent borrows, genius steals
3. all generalizations are false including this one
4. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
5. the first rule of Fight Club is that there are no rules- that's the first rule of Fight Club?monospaced
- you're not supposed to talk about it.omg
- ian000
Less is more:
"Beauty is that reasoned harmony of all the parts within a body, so that nothing may be added, taken away, or altered, but for the worse." – Alberti