“Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists!”
Bauhaus was a design movement with the sole intention of changing the world by experimenting with a variety of crafts. They set up the first Bauhaus school in Weimer, Germany and selected some of the best talents from Art, Type, Crafts and Architecture, including the painter Wassily Kandinsky who I was really interested in when I studied Art at school. His most famous works were full of geometrical shapes like circles and squares and zig zag compositions and used a variety of colours. Colour theory was a key element of interest for Bauhaus pioneers. So many logo designs today are symbolised with shapes whether they're geometric or more abstract, so its evident that paintings such as Kandinsky's had a massive impact on design.
As far as typography was considered, the Bauhaus movement was known for creating posters that used type in a variety of orientations, horizontal, vertical and diagonal always in either upper or lower case exclusively. It was unique and exciting for its time. Today we still see a wide variety of work which has been inspired by Bauhaus. During Barack Obama's presidential campaign a few years back, Obama's team created flyers for a rally in Berlin. The flyers employed the Bauhaus design. The Bauhaus style as well as other styles such as Constructivism and Futurism are still popular with many today and is actively used as a style choice and many others use influences of it in their work because of its focus on simplicity.
Information sourced from Smashingmagazine.com
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