Looking for some good inspiration for your web designs? Here is a great lesson on some basic design movements. You will definitly expand your creative scope and open new ideas and ways of thinking about your designs.
Larrisa Meek does a great job explaining 7 design movements, affectionately know as Design-isms, and how today’s web design relates to them.
The 7 Design-isms this time around are:
- Collagism - based on the collages we used to do in grade school, but with a certain theme and creative style.
- Ornamentalism - simliar to Collagism, but in the spirit of “fluer de lis” and the Art Nouveau style mastered by one of my favourite designer/artists Alphonse Mucha.
- Glossism - this is the look of Web 2.0. Gradients, reflections, round corners, shiny buttons, and bold colors. Chances are you have seens this style a number of times in your online travels.
- Wordism - This style uses fonts and words as the design element. Herb Lubalin, a print designer who was a master in this style, continues to inspire many web designers.
- Futurism - An early design movement on the web that uses mechanical and computer parts. Think Transformers!
- Minimalism - Sophisticated, extremely simple designs of shape and color where the content is the hero.
- Retroism - What’s old is new again. This design movement feeds from the design styles of the previous decades.
Web design-isms 7 surefire styles that work
Each Design Style presented features a design sample and a few web sites that have used a particular Design-ism in their web design.
Experienced web designers and new web designers will get something from this article.
I encourage you to take some time, go though each style and get familiar with them. Next time your looking for design inspiration you’ll have a few more styles to mash up and mold into your own style.
You’ll most likely start paying more attention to the design styles of the sites you visit from now on!
Found any other Design-isms or styles on the web? Got any fav sites using any of these Design-isms? Punch ‘em into our comments and let everyone see!
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