Bauhaus and new typographic style

Alright so i am going to do this blog now because i have a lot of other ones to fix so i might as well do this while i am fresh (with my wonderful writing abilities *Sarcasm*) The Bauhaus movement was very interesting indeed. I finally felt as if i was looking at something that looked good to me. I felt that this style had something to it something different. It was clean and pushed ideas in new directions.

The Bauhaus is actually a school of design. I found this out the hard way because right before i started reading i was talking to my dad. He told me that he really liked the Bauhaus and I tried to sound smart saying yeah i think he's cool to (not knowing what to say) then he corrected me and i decided to read the chapter. But anyways the Bauhaus was a art school that started in Germany. The school itself was formed by a man named Gropius. Gropius wanted to merge applied arts with fine arts schools and when he did this he named it "Das Staatliche Bauhuas" his goal was to solve problems of visual design created by industrialism. One fact from the reading that i found interesting was that at the Bauhaus they made no distinction between fine and applied arts. But one person out of the many read about that i want to focus my blog on is a man named Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Who will be called Nagy by me for times sake. Nagy explored many new areas in design and photography, such as photomontage, photogram, kinetic motion, light, and transparency. Nagy also worked a lot with typography stating about typography " a tool of communication in its most intense form. The emphasis must be on absolute clarity" i found this interesting because it makes sense typography can get a point across in a very direct way and how you use it can change the way it gets to you. Nagy also started experimenting with photos in graphic design. using the mixture of typography with posters he used techniques such as double exposures, enlargement, distortion, montage. I found Nagy to be important because he began to see connections to get graphic design changing with new ideas. And nagy eventually re-opened the Bauhaus school in Chicago after the nazi party closed it down.

There are many more people that came from the Bauhaus like, Bayer who designed a type with all lower case letters in their simplest geometric form. and the Bauhaus influenced many people. One of these people include Jan Tschichold. He petty much said type should be in motion, he experimented with different designs with font and went crazy he would flush with the left margin with uneven line lengths with uneven symmetry and a wide variety of weights and fonts. But what this was, was the new typography. New typography focused on clarity mostly sans serif fonts. it developed form from the text. The rest of the reading talks about different people and different ideas introduced. such as the introduction to the modern map, new approaches to photography, and more designs by independent designers.

Overall this chapter was long and it took time to get through but i still enjoyed it. It is a style that is nice to look at it is clean and yet very interesting. my favorite thing from this whole chapter has to be the Isotype movement. which is best described by using pictures for words. The use of elementary pictographs portrayed information. The information was usually portrayed with graphs.

One question: why did the nazi party force the Bauhaus to close?