1920

Basic Course

Johannes Itten

-principles of design and the nature of materials

Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar

1923, Germany

HERBERT BAYER AND LAZLO MAHOLY-NAGY

"type is a tool of communication..."

Pneumatik Poster

LAZLO MAHOLY-NAGY

1923, Germany

type poster for tires.

Banknotes for the State Bank of Thuringia (Germany)

HERBERT BAYER

1923

The World Foundation

LASZLO MAHOLY-NAGY

1927, Germany

satirical photo montage or "photoplastic"

Bauhaus Magazine cover

HERBERT BAYER

1928, Germany

camera instead of drawing board

Exhibition Poster for Kandinsky

HERBERT BAYER

1926, Germany

type hiearchy

constructivism + de stijl influence

Universal Alphabet

HERBERT BAYER

1925, Germany

eliminated upper case letters

maximized difference of letterforms for functionality

German design school, 1919-1925

combined and applied to problems of functional design 

formed after WWI as new social order

preliminary course "design fundamentals"

 LASZLO MAHOLY-NAGY, JOSEF ALBERS, HERBERT BAYER

phase ii dessau, 1925-1933

rationality, GRID, san serif typefaces

influenced int'l typographic style

universal alphabet

geometrically constructed characters < legibility

different weights

bold, condensed, typewriter, handwriting styles

(HERBERT BAYER, 1925)