Lecture 5

Architecture/Furniture- New international style
Dutch Design
Revolutionary design in furniture
Bauhaus
Weimar republic progressed in Russia
Moholy Nagy- Functionalism
Universal Type Face
The Bauhaus at Dessau
Herbert Bayer
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography- Functional
Dutch Modernism
White space

We started the lecture by watching a movie on the Bauhaus school, which all design and modernism took great strides thanks to the ideas of shapes and colors. Much what the school produced was based on function, which ruled supreme, so material beauty was outdone by functional beauty. As those ideas grew so the graphic side, the universal type face was created to make a font that had no flair but was functional everywhere, keeping with the idea of no external beauty but functionality. Clean lines and no excess is what made the school popular. All lead to modernism.White space became extremely popular allowing designers to play with position and the area around the texts that we now use as negative space. Architecture was revolutionized by Bauhaus in that modern houses have the same shapes and styling that building was designed in. Tschichold created the new international standard for type, the origins of swiss design.