It is stated that modernism in art was a breakthrough stage due to the rising industrialisation era and heavy production of machinery. This has forced the current designers to re-think their creating process as these machines are able to create mass production of wanted items.
Modernism is known for its wanting abandonment of the past, including techniques or ideas, and searching for simpler and new forms for expressing value through artistic abilities.
These are some of the techniques that modernists used:
Art was typically used and shown with posters being filled with imagery and type, fitting a lot of detail into the visible areas, whereas modernist artists tried to break away from this and began using, grid systems that created negative space allowing them to show the visible type, making it stand out and create a bigger meaning with an impact of seriousness.
Although the movement has had not much of an impact until the 1930s during the fleeing of artists, designers, and architects from Europe to the United States for their safety.
Jan Tschichold designed this poster to promote the fundamental principles of Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography)