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.
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