Bauhaus

                                   

Bauhaus was one of the first design schools that there was around which was established in 1919 by an architect called Walter Gropius. As an art school it based on industrial design, graphic design, architecture, photography, fine arts and new media. What made this school different from the others was because it believed that the modernisation process could be mastered by means of design and with all these subjects such school eventually became the best one around classifying with the most influential movements of design.

The vision in this school was to connect the new technological developments as they have merged together art, crafts and technology. Such artworks produced one can noticed the clean geometric forms flowed by a balanced visual compositions which were very simple in design yet very visual pleasing. As the school thought new media one now could experiment more with materials and looking through the artefacts they vary in their mediums as they used wood, metal, glass, plastics and other materials which gave everything a futuristic look
                                                        

The futuristic look was experimented by graphic designers too whom attended to the Bauhaus such as Moholy Nagy who was passionate user of red and experimental layouts with strong design and as he believed typography doesn’t have to be always placed horizontally and experimented by placing typography diagonally and even vertically on the page layouts.

                                                           

Herbert Bayer, another well graphic designer known in the Bauhaus movement. He became one of the primary keys of the movement right after developing a universal typeface which was commissioned by Walter Gropius for Bauhaus use. 

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Back then, there was a lot of political pressure from the Nazi party, as we all know Bauhaus was based on modern design where else the Nazis were strongly against is as they favoured classicism. As Gropius resigned, Hannes Meyer succeeded after him as nothing changed in the school and carried on with the usual practices. These pressures were built as the Bauhaus was being labelled as ‘un-German’ which was eventually because of the modern style being thought and characterised such school as a front for Russians, socialists, liberals and communists which then Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis.

Although the school was closed down after just 14 years, the movement’s design followed on through the years as the element of form follows function is still being used today such as white space, clean lines.

                                                                 

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