With the advent of 16mm equipment came the birth of film as personal artistic expression, and Maya Deren led the revolution. The woman who was "her own avant-garde movement," had what can only be described as an eclectic set of interests. She immersed herself in political science, journalism, English

Avant-garde film, Death, Feminine, Feminist, Primal, Spare, Surreal

"The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects." Adolf Loos was deeply concerned about the state of architecture in turn-of-the-century Austria. Loos objected to the Art Nouveau movement -- with its stress on the personal and the decorative, and its rejection o

Classical, Minimal, Spare, Vienna secession furniture

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, like so many influential artists, cannot be easily classified. While he had a defining influence on modern architecture, and especially the evolution of the skyscraper, he was more interested in intensifying an individual's experience of a space than in using architecture as

Bauhaus architecture, Cool, Minimal, Modernist architecture, Sincere, Spare, Spiritual

Throughout our daily lives we relate to our multi-dimensional world in a two-dimensional manner via visual communications such as signs, advertisements, and Internet-specific communications. In the information technology arena, these types of communications also include everything from timetables and

Anal, Elegant, Geometric, Info architecture & theory, Mathematical, Quiet, Spare