Class #12 - April 3, 2012

Summary:

BAUHAUS

• 1923: exhibition is important: 1st time get to see what's going on.

Jan Tischichold

• 1925: Writes book about typography
• 1928: Writes about modern typography @ 28 years old
• Open asymmetrical movement
• Color palettes etc 
• Turn away from modern typography
• Arrested for making non-german typography
• Books were seized to "protect the german people".
• Able to take theoretical concept and give it practical discretion 

Study for the test:

1. White space in important - simplified and flat
2. Alphonse Mucha got a lucky break
3. Art nouveau: texture, tendrills of hair 
4. Decoration was popular as entertainment
5. Brands and stylingd comes from this time (art nouveau) 
6. A lot of flat planes of color
7. Photo-mechanical reproduction techniques
8. Art nouveau in Austria: Susstill
9. Art nouveau in Germany: Jucanstiall
10. Glasglow school - school of thought and approach to design
11. You like sex and stuff
12. Rectilinear structures with cuvilinear elements
13. Work extends into furniture
14. Talwin Morris- take ideas of 4 people and give them expression
15. Gustav is the head of viana secession
16. Generous use of white space "naked space"& Censorship
17. Viana secession inspired by Art nouveau from France
18. Influences from the glasglow school
19. Versacrum is the magazine they used to experiment "will it work?"
20. Peter Barins: 1st use of running san-serif text
21. Also started to see grids and proportions
22. Gives us the 1st logo - identity 
23. BernHard: placketshteel bfrigbiwgw
24. Name, flat panel of color and object
25. Axis-powers posters are abstract
26. Why would you have beautiful posters for war? War is brutal
27. Allies posters are touchy feely and emotional
28. Flag was the inspiration for Uncle Sam
29. Ludwig: powerful look and good figure ground
30. Cubism becomes popular in art and design
31. Three movements from Russia
32. Cut and paste
33. Black square: Maliavitch
34. Russian Constructivism
35. De stijl - utopian ideas
36. Bauhaus - know the 3 locations
37. Walter Gropius: 1st head of the Bauhaus
38. Johannes Itten: fondation course of the bauhaus
39. Typo-photo: taking a single image and integrating it with typography
40. Modernism is slow to come to America