As the exhibition details, typography wasn’t initially taught at the Bauhaus, but was soon brought in as founder Walter Gropius and his instructors embraced advances in photography and printing and ...

Bauhaus Typography at 100, curated by Rob Saunders and Henry Cole Smith, will feature typographic work by Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, and ...

Herbert Bayer's typography was used widely by the Bauhaus, including on a book published to accompany the Weimar exhibition of 1923. Image by Tobias Adam. Bayer took the task seriously ...

Even if you’re not a designer, you’ve probably heard the phrase “form follows function.” That’s how influential the school that espoused it, the Bauhaus, has become since its heyday in ...

The Bauhaus fonts form part of Adobe's Hidden Treasures series, which also includes digital versions of the brushes of 19th century artist Edvard Munch, for people to use in their own designs.

Bauhaus typography emphasized simplicity, functionality, and legibility and moved away from the ornate and decorative letterforms of the past. The movement’s key figures, such as Bayer, created new ...

“The font that sums up this movement was the font commissioned by the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius from the designer ...

The project materialized after the discovery of unfinished typography sketches and letter fragments from the German school Bauhaus Dessau, which was closed in 1932 by the National Socialist Party.

Bauhaus font and typography prefers a “sans serif” style, lending itself to a less flowery approach and interpretation in its consumption, a more utilitarian slant if you will.