Pablo Picasso innovated the Cubist art movement beginning with his 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and paintings increasingly representing 3-Dimensional art perspectives during his early years as an artist. In the design, layout and execution of this book I focused entirely on the theme of Picasso as an artist and his groundbreaking approach towards pushing the boundaries of distorted, increasingly geometric visual realities within his art. Rather than exploring the depth of objects within the canvas, Picasso (along with Georges Braque), moved towards greater abstraction of flattened scenes, objects and people with the notion of basic shapes: the cone, triangle, cylinder and square—embracing a new three-dimensional perspective in art. This move towards simplicity and pushing the boundaries of abstraction influenced a range of other Avant-garde movements, such as Futurism, Abstract Expressionism, and Constructivism, forever altering the course of modern art.

“I saw that everything had already been done. A break was needed to create a revolution and start again from scratch. The problem has been how to go beyond, avoid the object and give artistic expression to the result—all of this has been my fight to shatter two-dimensional perspective.”
—Pablo Picasso

Design Skills: Editorial Design, Book Design & Layout, Copy compositing, Strategy, Systems of Design.