Minimalism – a term almost everyone has heard and used. But where does it actually come from? What does minimalism look like? And what meaning and impact does it have for the communications industry?
Minimalism is a movement in art, architecture, music, and literature that developed in the 1960s in the United States and later spread worldwide. The term was coined by the English art philosopher Richard Wollheim, who published an article titled “Minimal Art” in 1965.
However, it can be said with certainty that architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had already used the famous phrase “Less is more” in the 19th century – a phrase that Robert Browning had used as early as 1855.
