Week 4

1919

Bauhaus established in Weimar by Walter Gropius.

Freikorps assassinates the Spartacist leaders,

Bauhaus Graphic Design Introduction

-       These designs were knowsn as “New Typography”, no preferred style of type.

-       “We use all typefaces, type sizes, geometric forms, colours etc”- Laszlo Maholy-Nagy in 1923.

-       All attempts at the Bauhaus to design new letterforms were based on strict geometry, in a functionalist attempt tp shun Renaissance designs. "FRAKTUR" and heavy calligraphic typefaces. "Neuland" was designed by Rudolf Koch in 1924 and consisted of marks made a craft tool. Koch designed Cable in 1927, at the same time as the most popular san-serif type, "Futura"

-       The Bauhaus magazine began publication in 1926; this and the fourteen Bauhaus books were important vehicles for spreading ideas about arty theory and its application to architecture and design. Kandinsky, Klee, Gropius, Mondarian, Moholy-Nagy, and van Doesburg were editors or authors of volumes in the series.

Presentations

Over weeks 5 and 6, we did our presentations, which were all very interesting.
Ashley probably spoke for 25 minutes, but it was an interesting topic.

Looking at infographics

Over week 7 and 8 we looked at some infographic books, which were very intense, and pretty much impossible to read, but it did look good nonetheless.


We split into groups to come up with an infographic, and think of ideas on how we would present it. Blake, Richard and myself got together and surveyed the class 'anonymously' on their guilty pleasures. We had written a list for them, including 'Britney Spears", 'Justin Bieber', 'Beards', 'Singing in the shower', 'love stories' and so on, and then calculated how many ticks for each. We started thinking of doing the infographic with heaps of different doors representing the different guilty pleasures, and on each door, depending on how many ticks that particular one got, it would have that amount of 'locks' on the door, and if no one had selected one of the 'guilty pleasures' on the sheet, then the door would be open, as it doesn't seem to be much of a guilty pleasure.