BBDO

Smart concept. An iconic image of Michael Jackson linking with a ribbon.




http://www.bbdo.de/de/index.html

Serviceplan Hamburg / München, Germany

A smart simple concept. Using shapes to create Hitler and Charlie Chaplin.
ttp://www.serviceplan.de/

Joe Prince

A company admix designs create simple and cleaver concept logos. The shading frame makes it a lot more professional. I have already emailed Joe Prince a few same questions I have sent to the other designers.



Controversial but very clever design



The word 'back' taking the 'a' away, still able to understand the word and also a concept of putting the line after the space like its being typed on the computer.



The colour works a like a green brush of field. Using the word 'fence' from into a fence



www.admixdesigns.com

Simplisty Quotes

These are amazing quotes but need to cut it down to a few so that I can realate to with my book and example of the quote being backed up.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Eugene Delacroix

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
Laura Nyro

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Fav:

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Donald Norman

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
Norman Hartnell

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
Linda McCartney

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.
Jeremy Spencer

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Felix Adler

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The great seal of truth is simplicity.
Herman Boerhaave

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
Jacob Lawrence

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/simplicity_5.html

Kasimir Malevitch

"Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal"

Kasimir Malevitch,

Black Square,

1923-1930

His work is very simple using canvas and plain colours.

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/minimalism.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/kazimir_malevich.html

Minimalism Quotes:

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation."
Hilton Kramer (1928-), The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960s.

"What you see is what you see."
Frank Stella (1936-), American painter, 1966. Critic Deborah Solomon and others have described this statement as the unofficial slogan of the Minimalist movement.

"Minimal art was the first art form to come out of the universities rather than the artists' ghetto. This interest in Minimalism and later in Conceptualism can only happen to people who have a historical consciousness."
William Rubin

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/minimalism.html

These quotes can be backed up with images. Showing example of minimalistic design.

Quote

I found a poem about less is more which I find can really relate to simplicity.

Who strive - you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,-
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) - so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia.

An architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto "Less is more" showing a building to create an impression of extreme simplicity. This would be good to get a quote more from his interviews.