curves eliminated, sans serif type was favored

squares were used for a module for type design, color when to more primary favoring red

Architectural and graphic forms in

asymmetrical equilibrium

Cubisim makes a huge push into design

Movie

Design is in everything

moris linked art and trade to form the bauhaus movement

trade and craft schools went up in germany

functional house hold objects using traditional ways to make them

when the first world war ended the bauhaus created the most advanced school of the time with design. this was a huge revolutionary for architecture

The belief that art could be used to change society

the school was laid-out like an architecture firm

The students had radical parties

should search for inspiration within yourself

eden's classes began with relaxation and breathing exercise, but he took it further for himself by fasting

square, triangle, and circle, had been given further meanings.

kandinskey went as far as adding sound to color chicken yellow cow red

red blue yellow, bauhaus style of design

practical work was introduced into education

dutch painter dusberg de still movement- the first to focus on design. concentrated on right angle lines

a dispute broke out about diagonal lines

art and technology was formed during post war and the desired to industrialize, the be more functional.

maholly introduce machines into the workshop

it wasn't about unique anymore it was about production

less is more

function rules supreme

herbert head of type he decided one typeface that was more understandable

suported a flat roof cubic design

the community hated the new modern design with clean lines that are still functional

1945 failed in all attempts to support itself and the state stopped helping them

with the rise of hitler the school moved to desso who where open to their new ideas

the ultimate aim in every design is expression

their quest was to created the home of the future, they where functional and cheap. even the workers that build them could buy them

in 1947 the school revolved around architecture

in 1932 they moved to berlin and there whole way of teaching was changed

the nazi's out lawed the bauhaus, the faculty was dispersed throughout the US

seagream building built in new york a triumph of form and function

a new visual literature

type and photo in combination and the force that connects them

use film strips to re-photograph type

Most of there work shows up in the 21st centery

rotation of type-kandinssky

red and black are primary

exterior signage, sans serif, wayfinding,

wanted to make it easy for the user to follow

GI bill helped lots of soilders go to school

people in the us would see the 25page add

used asymmetry to show info the best way

Diagonals become prominent

brought in more space, with perfect balance

sebon remake of garmond

I think it's crazy that the bauhaus was so influential to us still even today. Its great to see that the past still does influence us today, I guess that's how we learn and that's why we are here. The question really being are we going to influence people?

Avant grade important movement, Pure form becomes content referencing nothing but itself... and with it's geometric shape color and space motivates graphic design to take on a new look even more different than 25 years before

Abstract art - shift to our formalism

Suprematism-dadaism-futurisim

Russians coined the phrase

“Cubo- Futurism”

Embraced the usage of photography and used it as a power illustrations could never do

Photography was used to creat myth not to restate reality, used for propaganda martial

Goals of Constructivism-

To redefine the concept of the artist as that of a industrial worker with technical mystery of a practical medium

Corporate design of the 60's come through

What type of images would show movement?

Architectural design becomes popular

Film was revolutionary

The photomontage sequence- not only theatrical, but distinctly cinematic,using documentary film techniques of Dziga Vertov.

Constructivists enhanced rhetorical power through “hyperbole”,

extravagant exaggeration...

Rodehenko Makes the book form more dynamic by

incorporating the grammar and syntax of theater and film in

its design.

Rodehenko was also motivated by culture

Rodehenko and Mayakovsky blew up and became big calling them selves Advertisement constructors

EL Lissitzky visionary and innovator of the 20th century like the high priest of modernism

Communication is shown with structure of elements

“Beat the Whites With The Red Wedge” 1919 propaganda poster proved that abstraction could prove a message, with the combination of abstract geometric form and typographic elements

the idea 'can we come up with posters that semi peasant people could read and understand' can you decipher this rather important shift, the birth of form, something that all could understand, something that everyone could understand using symbolic images?

Invent symbols and put them in front of the public and educate them on what the symbols mean

children's tail of two squares was a great example of something showing a symbol with typography to form a new meaning

the diagram a new syntax

EL Lissitzky- Spread the Constructivist philosophy through frequent visits to the Bauhaus. into western europe in the 20th century

lissitzky Established a typographic standard for the modern movement.

the structure of the book becomes a part of the structure

First designer to have his work presented at a large scale

Salomon Tellingater more free spirited, open layouts

The Steinberg Brothers-invented the idea of a modern movie poster their posters are unlike anybody else

the forms the attitudes are put into place in the 20'th century

Revolution completes the establishment of a “professional

identity” for modern graphic design.

Design on the avant garde became the idea of social change

It is amazing to me to watch how graphic design came about and what the movements where that pushed them forward that inspired the designers of the early 20th century. It is based on a lot of the movements that I have always found fascinating Unlike the rest of the art world graphic design was really only taken by storm with a few designers vs 10 or more artists. I guess what I want to know is why is it that even though they move forward in designing why is it that other new approaches aren't still happening

Pictorial Modernism

Graphic simplification

Integration of word and image

Symbolic concerns of Synthetic

Cubism.

Cubism replaced a rendering of natural appearances with purely invented form.

Bernhard’s work considered the

logical conclusion of the turn of the

century poster movement where

Graphic design was not be

limited to any one medium.

Lucian Bernhard set the ground work for distinct

professional idenity for graphic design.

Mythical Realism - promoted patriotism

at all levels of society thru national

symbols full of realism.

Uncle Sam becomes a symbol of nationalism still in use today.

There is a direct reflection of modern warfare coming up in Graphic Design in Posters

Futurism

Dada takes off

Filippo Marinetti launched typographic modernism

Iconoclastic

type becomes weapon

Illustration got sucked into dada as well and then moves onto surrealism

Used art of photomontage as a potent propaganda weapon against the Weimar Republic

Berlin Dada

Kurt Schwitters- Non political-Concerned more with the formal and artistic concerns first modern designer who became an author

Surrealism hand an impact on graphic design by the way of the movements of painters

Automatism- A pure psychicexercise

Max Ernst the bridge between dada and surrealism

Man Ray-surrilist photographer

I realy enjoyed the images from tonight this is always a favorite time in history classes! Why do you think it is that surrealist holds on still today? Is it because it's a free expression of yourself?