undesign the new design trend? at Rik Abel

undesign the new design trend?

Published by Rik Abel on April 27, 2005 in Design.

Is undesign the new design trend? Folks such as Garret Dimon and Tom Coates have redesigned their blogs to be über-minimal, leaving me feeling somewhat overdressed, so to speak. It’s not entirely accurate to say that they are ‘undesigned’ since clearly a lot of thought has gone into reducing the unnecessary and achieving maximum simplicity. Subtraction is monochrome (until you hover over links) and looks great. I like this trend - design striving toward transparency. A paring away of merely decorative elements. But at the same time, a certain boldness from the use of BIG headlines and pictures. And BIG buttons.