Suprematism and its form and color led to Constructivist movement. Constructivist is the word of the day. With the rise of communist Russia a new and great design movement came along with it. Rodchenko and Lissitzky bring design as we know to a whole new level of modern. The way they developed high contrast, angles, condensed typefaces, bold shapes, and photomontages created a style that many try and fail to create today. Its so strong, and brute-like when you see it, but its comfortable at the same time. They abstracted ideas, typefaces, and geometric shapes to convey ideas which was completely revolutionary and blows me away still. The establishment of the Grid in the "Isms" book might be one of the biggest things we learned today for me. The fact that they almost use entirely San Serif means they are my best friends next to the swiss.
We use the ideas and techniques these men developed pretty much everyday in our studies in the studio. The grid is something that will be around forever, and I will never stop using. The boldness and strength of these designs is something many of us try to put into our own designs to stand out from our classmates. I personally like my designs to be seen, much design today fades to the background, and the constructivist techniques make work really stand out. I will use San serif all day everyday if nobody stops me.
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