The Bauhaus - Graphic Design History

Graphic Design History of The Bauhaus This video explores the Bauhaus' contribution to graphic design history, from its origins after World War 1 to its continuing influence on contemporary movie title design, album covers, typography, and visual culture. 0:00 Introduction: The Bauhaus in Everyday Design 2:35 When Was the Bauhaus? 2:57 What Came Before the Bauhaus? 8:17 What Was the Bauhaus? 12:44 Timeline of Direction: The Changing Bauhaus 13:55 The Bauhaus Curriculum & Foundation Course 17:48 Defining the “Bauhaus Style” 18:47 The Designers of the Bauhaus 19:38 Josef Albers: Color, Perception & Systems 21:45 Anni Albers: Weaving, Structure & Pattern 22:35 Herbert Bayer: Typography & Graphic Identity 25:30 László Moholy-Nagy: Type, Photography & Experimentation 29:11 Söre Popitz & an Expanded Bauhaus Canon 30:00 DIER: How to Analyze Graphic Design 32:36 Oskar Schlemmer: The Body as Geometry 35:11 Joost Schmidt: Typography & Advertising 36:10 Iwao Yamawaki: Bauhaus Between Germany & Japan 37:47 Jan Tschichold & The New Typography 40:45 The Wider Modernist Network 43:51 Why Did the Bauhaus Close? 45:26 How Has The Bauhaus Influenced Contemporary Graphic Design 46:30 Bauhaus Typography Today 48:38 Pictograms, Signage & Public Communication 49:44 Corporate Identity & Digital Design 51:32 IKEA, Publishing & Motion Design 53:00 Film Posters, Photography & Album Covers 57:23 Conclusion: Why the Bauhaus Still Matters We begin with several movements and traditions that helped shape its development, we examine the Bauhaus’ defining visual strategies, and see how it has influenced design in the last 100 years. The video features work by Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Hebert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, László Moholy-Nagy, Söre Popitz, Oskar Schlemmer, Iwao Yamawaki, Jan Tschichold, Max Bill, Walter Dexel, Paul Renner, Karel Teige, Piet Zwart. It also considers the movement’s visual echoes in work by Marty Goldstein, David L. Burke, Joe Taylor, Bob Newman, Ed Benguiat, Shingeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Jóse M. Urós, Margaret Calvert, Katsumi Masaru, Yoshiro Yamashita, Michael Collins, Tom Geismar, Michael Bierut, Sam Moreau, Jensen Harris, Jop Van Bennekom, Angua Wall, Hazel Baird, Emanuele Marani, EJ Kang, Elastic, Sebastian Pardo, Andrzej Bertrandt, Cardinal Communications, Vasilis Marmatakis, Erik Nitsche, Neville Brody, Reid Miles, Ben Ross Davis, Kate Bush, Peacock, Peter Saville, Carl Dair, Zuzana Licko, Rudy Vanderlans, and others. Subscribe to See What Eye Mean for more videos about art, graphics, visual culture, and design history. I would love to make more of these so if you have any specific requests comment below! As a note: I am an artist, art director, public college professor, and I created this presentation to make graphic design history engaging and accessible to my students and the general public. My hope is that learning how visual languages develop will help all of us create more thoughtful and informed work. If you have edits or questions please feel free to reach out to me via email on the channel. Artwork credits, research sources appear throughout the video and in the citation pages at the end and here- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C... . Images are reproduced with attribution for education, criticism, commentary, and scholarship. THANKS & RESEARCH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to the museums, libraries, archives, and collections that supported this video’s research: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): https://www.moma.org/ Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/ The Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: https://www.guggenheim.org/ Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/ Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin: https://www.bauhaus.de/ Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/ Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar: https://www.bauhauskooperation.com/ Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/ Harvard Art Museums: https://harvardartmuseums.org/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: https://www.smb.museum/en/ Klassik Stiftung Weimar: https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/ Josef & Anni Albers Foundation: https://www.albersfoundation.org/ British Film Institute: https://www.bfi.org.uk/ #TheBauhaus #bauhaus #GraphicDesignHistory #DesignHistory