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Bauhaus Graphic Design
Also called Bauhaus graphics
Bauhaus graphics emerged from the German school's exploration of art, technology and everyday production, using typography and photography as experimental materials. Geometric lettering, asymmetry and clear hierarchies are common, with words sometimes becoming images. Its concern with how communication works extends beyond the familiar shorthand of primary colors and simple shapes.
- Kind
- Art tradition
- Period
- 1919–1933
- Lineage
- Modernist Graphic Design
- Medium family
- Posters, graphics and layout
- Medium
- Technique
- Typographic layout · Geometric construction
- Colour
- Primary colors
Key traits
- 01Treat type, elementary shapes and open space as compositional elements.
- 02Changes in type size, direction and position can establish purposeful reading hierarchies.
- 03Some practices use simplified or geometric letterforms to explore links between type and image.
- 04Photography, color blocks or lines may enter the layout, with choices tied to a period and design task.
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Lineage & relations
Compare with
Art Deco Graphic DesignCompare geometry as ornament and period imagery in Art Deco with experiments linking type, form and function in Bauhaus graphics; shared shapes do not establish the same movement.
International Typographic StyleBauhaus graphics belong to a school and its design experiments; the International Typographic Style developed in a different setting, and grids or sans-serif type alone do not establish either attribution.