It was edited by van Doesburg, devoted to boosting Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in general; it subsequently sank into the hands of Dadaists.
The ideas advocated by it are also sometimes called De Stijl, and these have had a marked influence on the architecture of Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and on commercial art - poster designing, packaging, printing - particularly in Germany at first, but later spreading all over the world.