Bauhauss

  

Bauhaus was a fine arts school in Germany which was funded and founded by a man named Walter Gropius. The school began in 1919 and ended in 1932. Bauhuas meaning house of construction. Walter Gropius was born on the 18th of May 1883 and died on the 5th of July 1969. He believed in the family business and became an architect at an early age. Although the man could not draw a straight line he was able to complete his designs and plans through the use of people who could draw. The school was famous for its new different modernist ideas.

The influence of Bauhuas spread developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.

 
Who was Herbert Bayer? What famous typeface did he design? Why did he and other Bauhaus designers invent  many ‘sans serif’ typefaces?

Herbert Bayer was born on the 5th April 1900 and died on the 30th of  September 1985. During his time on earth he was a graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognised as the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. The reason for the multiple San-serifs created was to spread their new era of modernism into the typeface world.

Who was Laszlo Moholy-Nagy? Discuss his graphic style.

He was born on the 20th July 1895 and died on the 24th November 1946. He was a Hungarian painter and a photographer. He was also one of the professors at the Bauhaus school. He was inspired through the integration of high tech technology and the integration of art. Moholy-Nagy had an Art and Design university in Budapest was named in his honor. Throughout his life  he became a wealthy professional within his work of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking. His main field was photography. He believed that photography could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye couldn't. He experimented with the photographic process of exposing light sensitive paper with objects overlain on top of it, he called it photogram.

 Who was Max Meidinger, What famous typeface did he design? discuss that typeface in more detail.

Max Miedinger was born on the 24th of December 1910  He was famous for creating Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957 which was renamed Helvetica in 1960. He soon later became a typographer for Globus department store's  and became a customer counselor and typeface sales representative for the Haas’sche Schriftgießerei until 1956, There he became a freelance graphic artist in Zürich. He had created Helvetica to get rid of the old Gothic typeface face which was previously used. Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. His goal was to create a clear typeface with no curves of any kind. So it didn't resemble any serif font. The name was actually changed so that they could market the typeface worldwide.