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About Mono-ha (Lee Ufan, 1968)

Mono-ha stripped art back to the encounter between unaltered matter and the space it occupies. A boulder resting on a glass plate, timber leaning against a gallery wall — interventions so quiet they feel like observations. This design system channels that restraint: river-stone surfaces, steel-gray accents, and vast emptied space where a single element can breathe.

The palette is the palette of things themselves — concrete gray, earth brown, the off-white of uncoated glass. Typography is contemplative and slow, set small in Cormorant Garamond with generous vertical rhythm. Every layout is a composition: one object, placed with intent, surrounded by ma.

Learn more about the Mono-ha (Lee Ufan, 1968) style

Origin
Tokyo, Japan (Tama Art University)
Era
1968–1975; founding moment Oct 1968 Sekine Phase—Mother Earth
Key figures
Lee Ufan · Nobuo Sekine · Susumu Koshimizu · Kishio Suga
Movements
Mono-ha · post-Gutai Japanese avant-garde · Arte Povera parallel

Mono-ha (Lee Ufan, 1968) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
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Secondary
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Typography

Cormorant GaramondHeadings
IBM Plex MonoMono
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