James Victore’s Rules:

  1. Learn the rules, then break the rules
  2. Don’t decorate crap
  3. There are no ugly typefaces, only ugly designers
  4. There is no right font
  5. sometimes the “wrongest” type choice is the best typeface
  6. avoid any tricks available from a drop down menu
  7. technology is not the answer, you are the answer
  8. avoid trends, create your style
  9. “fuck perfection”
  10. following the rules makes your work look like everyone elses

Art Styles

De Stilj - De Stijl was an art movement that incorporated the ideas of Neoplasticism, It was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden, consisting of artists and architects. The term De Stijl is also used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 created in the Netherlands.

Piet Mondrian is an artist of this time period he was a Dutch painter and art theoretician

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Theo Van Doesburg - a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture

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