Modern Design vs Flat Design :: Arturo Toledo /AND/ Interaction '14 highlights

We hosted Arturo Toledo at Mesh for a talk on modern design versus flat design, at a time when screen design was moving from richly detailed styles towards restrained, minimal ones.

Toledo, who had played a key part in spreading the word about Microsoft's new design language, traced the sources and inspiration behind flat design. He covered grids, typography, reduction of elements, and depth along the X, Y and Z axes in modern interfaces, and showed how principles from 20th-century modernists such as Vignelli, Rams, Müller-Brockmann and Barragán can be applied to interfaces for phones, tablets, desktops and TVs. He also shared samples and stories from a Modern Design workshop he held on 17–18 February.

The evening also included highlights from the Interaction '14 conference in Amsterdam.

Speakers

• Arturo Toledo, Designer associated with Microsoft's design language — Modern Design vs Flat Design

The original event page is on meetup.com.