Framing Piet Mondrian

  I thought I'd post some past work and begin to build an area of the Blog which would house a visual archive of my work - essentially an online portfolio of sorts with discussion. This will include some of the work I've created for the product design industry as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture.

  Having long been an admirer of the De Stijl movement I designed a very simple frame inspired by Piet Mondrian. Mondrian a dutch painter, along with Theo van Doesburg, created the De Stijl movement in 1917 which had very set principles in aesthetic design and form which carried over to architecture, furniture, painting and graphic design.

  For my frame design I created the components of the frame as simple geometric shapes, in primary colors which all holds together via friction fitting. The glass and image to be displayed is sandwiched together and slide into the three basic shapes to form the final frame. It can be displayed horizontally or vertically by placing the rectangular block on it's side. Also, when displaying the frame on a desk, an image can be displayed on both front and back - so there really is no back to the frame which is usually visually unappealing and hidden.

De Stijl Frame ~ Design Copyright: Maxx

  For more on the Piet Mondrian, Neoplasticism and the De Stijl movement I encourage you to visit WikiArt for Mondrian and the MoMA's page for more on the De Stijl movement.