Why Did The Gothic Master Builders Use Geometric Lines And Patterns In Their Designs?

nineteen glorious geometric patterns in design

Lately, we've noticed a lot of designers using geometric patterns, shapes and styles in their logo designs (opens in new tab), vector art (opens in new tab) and more. Using these shapes, the designs become a simple yet wholly hit work of art channelling influences from the blueprint era of art deco.

We've rounded up our favourite examples of geometric patterns and designs featuring geometric shapes. Come across what y'all think...

01. Seis x Six (opens in new tab)

Geometric patterns feature prominently within Morales' portfolio

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Based in Bogotá, Colombia, Silvino González Morales (opens in new tab) is a photographer, visual artist and graphic designer whose piece of work often features geometric or fractal patterns. Seis x Six (opens in new tab) is one such projection, in which Morales takes uncomplicated hexagons as his starting signal, and then works them upwards into circuitous and beautiful patterns.

02. Luminous Design Group (opens in new tab)

This geometric identity for E-Jet is inspired by the company's precision cutting work — This geometric identity for E-Jet is inspired by the company'southward precision cutting work

Tasked with creating a logo pattern and corporate identity for East-jet, a company that specialises in cutting, machining and forming materials using high precision machines, Luminous Pattern Grouping from Athens looked to the cutting process itself and came upwardly with a geometric design that reflects the complex decorative designs that E-jet carries out. On a 2nd level, the geometric shapes that make up the pattern can exist rearranged to make the name of the company.

The metallic meditations are available to download as wallpaper — The metal meditations are available to download as wallpaper

Ari Weinkle (opens in new tab) is an artist and designer from Boston, MA, whose work breaks autonomously and reappropriates different forms such equally the human figure, organic shapes and typography. This work, entitled Metaltations, is a series of 6 metallic meditations merging blended metals – copper, silver and gold – and repeated geometric shapes, and was made using Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

04. Sub.Partitioning (opens in new tab)

GMUNK uses intricate geometry to mind-bending effect — GMUNK uses intricate geometry to mind-angle effect

GMUNK (opens in new tab)'s Sub.Partition is a series of perceptual landscapes where graphic complexity emerges from the structure of simplistic three-dimensional forms; by subdividing basic archaic shapes into various levels of geometric intricacy, GMUNK aims to create perceived motility and patter. The series was created using Maya with the MASH procedural plugin, and rendered with Arnold.

05. Eric Broug (opens in new tab)

Eric Broug's art is inspired by Islamic geometric design — Eric Broug's art is inspired past Islamic geometric design

Dutch artist and designer Eric Broug discovered Islamic geometric art as a student in Amsterdam, and has been pursuing information technology always since. Because the use of figurative images is forbidden in Islamic art, he often uses intricate geometric patterns, created by the repetition, overlapping and interlacing of squares and circles, following mathematical rules.

Broug taught himself about Islamic geometric art past trying to deconstruct and recreate its patterns with a compass, ruler, pencil and paper, and has created books such as Islamic Geometric Design, which examines Islamic geometric blueprint in terms of its historical and cultural context.

06. Jeremy Booth (opens in new tab)

This piece demonstrates Jeremy Booth's geometric approach to illustration — This piece demonstrates Jeremy Berth's geometric approach to illustration

Born and raised in Kentucky, Jeremy Booth is a cocky-taught designer and illustrator whose style has been described as 'vector noir', with an emphasis on potent angular lines with plenty of assuming light and shadow.

Much of his work features distinctly geometric elements, as can exist seen in the illustration above, entitled Curiosity. Head to his site to see more examples of his center-catching work.

07. Urban center of Melbourne (opens in new tab)

Geometric designs: City of Melbourne — This cool design is as multi-faceted as the city itself

Bringing a urban center together through branding is no piece of cake task, peculiarly when the urban center in question is a diverse as Melbourne, Australia. However that's exactly what branding agency Landor (opens in new tab) had to achieve with its aesthetic for the Metropolis of Melbourne Council.

Thanks to a clever geometric blueprint, the chunky 'K' logo is flexible enough to reverberate the dissimilar aspects and personalities of the city. Accompanied by a broader branding entrada that spreads across print and online platforms, Landor has successfully tied together the urban center through angular imagery.

08. Trig (opens in new tab)

Geometric designs: Olivia King packaging — This dynamic packaging really complements the jewellery

Australian designer, printer and podcaster Olivia Male monarch (opens in new tab) created this beautiful collection of concept packaging, which is suitably called Trig (equally in trigonometry). With a focus on angles and a bright visual identity, this design links upward physical products with a digital app.

09. Vector animals (opens in new tab)

Geometric patterns vector animals — This geometric vector series is a marvel of inspiration

This project from designer Promise Picayune (opens in new tab), which began back in 2012, is a marvel of geometric design. These vector animals accept proven so popular that Little has even started taking requests for portraits.

"I wanted to steer away from my usual melty, disproportional illustrations and try for something clean and balanced," explains Little. "I started experimenting with shapes, settling on a triangle to continue things clean and uncomplicated. I wanted the illustrations to be bright and colourful, and so I searched for animals, due to the fact the fur offered a broad diverseness of patterns and colours."

10. Spray paintings (opens in new tab)

Geometric patterns paintings — This series of paintings were created by New York artist Adam Daily

This series of cute geometric paintings was crafted by New York artist Adam Daily (opens in new tab), whose work spans a variety of media and techniques, including painting, photography and collage.

These paintings were imagined through a combination of digital and analogue tools and were somewhen created past mitt, using acrylic on PVC panels and applying paint with a spray gun.

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Sammy Maine was a founding member of the Creative Bloq team manner dorsum in the early 2010s, working equally a Commissioning Editor. Her interests cover graphic design in music and film, illustration and blitheness. Since departing, Sammy has written for The Guardian, VICE, The Independent & Metro, and currently co-edits the quarterly music journal Gilt Flake Paint.