c. 1920 – c. 1940
A revolutionary design school uniting art, craft, and technology, influencing modern typography, architecture, and graphic communication.
The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar in 1919. It revolutionised the relationship between art, craft, and industry and its influence on typography, layout, and visual communication is still felt today.
Designers, including Herbert Bayer and László Moholy-Nagy, developed a typographic approach of clarity and geometric rigour that defined the modernist visual language. The archive documents Bauhaus graphic design through designer profiles, scanned publications, and printed matter from the movement’s Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin periods.
Design Archive Feature, Design Education, Members Only Content, Movements
The Bauhaus approach to design emphasised simplicity, functionality, and the integration of modern technologies and materials. A century later, many of the principles taught at the school remain fundamental to contemporary design practices.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Movements, Regional Histories
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Read ArticleExplore designers connected to the Bauhaus including László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Josef Albers, and Johannes Itten. See also German graphic design history and 1920s graphic design history.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Ephemera, Members Only Content
Beyond his books, Dick Bruna's vivid colour and simplified forms found their way onto posters, packaging, murals and stamps, many of which feature in my growing collection.
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Members Only Content, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles
An article on Valentin Zietara , originally in German, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1930, written by H K Frenzel translated by E. T. Scheffauer
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Members Only Content, Designer Profiles, Studios & Collectives
A 1903-1904 article on Die Steglitzer Werkstatt, originally in German, published in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XIII, October 1903–March 1904.
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Regional Histories, Ephemera, Illustration, Members Only Content
A collected visual record of the Kanto, Chubu and Tohoku Lottery tickets.
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Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Movements
April Greiman is known for her experimental approach to graphic design, her role in the development of Californian New Wave and being one of the first designers to fully embrace the computer in her work.
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Illustration, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A collected visual record of the first eight years of Japan’s Rural Medical Care Promotion Lottery.
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