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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
Minimalism and maximalism are two sides of modernism. While orthodox
modernists of the 1920s and 1950s (the Bauhaus and the Swiss, respectively)
preferred economy and thus rejected complexity because it limited accessibility,
which impeded functionality, minimal and maximal can nevertheless serve the
same utilitarian ends. Moreover, they can be equally balanced in the same work
at the same time, as The Chase shows in its unique design for The Manchester
Dog Home Annual Report, an atypical venue for the application of contemporary
modernism or any other ism.
The Manchester Dog Home is an underfunded charity in the United
Kingdom that ...