Elfriede Stegemeyer
Photo: Elfriede Stegemeyer
Elfriede Stegemeyer Photographs
The poster is for an exhibition of photography by German photographer Elfriede Stegemeyer, 1908-88. Though never a Bauhaus student, her work reflects the experimental approach to photography championed there by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer.
There is no designer credit for this poster which has a symmetrical layout, completely at odds with the The New Typography it is based on. The same photograph appears on the cover of the catalogue for this exhibition, which has a less symmetrical or centred layout.
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Rudolf Ortner (1912-97) was a celebrated artist and architect who trained at the Bauhaus in its final years, 1932-33, in both Dessau and Berlin. He later studied painting at the former Bauhaus in Weimar. As indicated by this 2006 exhibition poster, he was an exponent of Art Concret (Konrete Kunst).
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Bauhaus-Archiv
Design: Ott+Stein
The design partnership Ott+Stein made several posters for the Bauhaus-Archiv, from the 1980s. This one is from 1986. The geometric shapes are based on the roof formation at the Berlin Bauhaus-Archiv, which was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the original Bauhaus.
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What is the Bauhaus worth?
Design: Cyan
What is the Bauhaus worth [today]?
The poster is by the German design studio Cyan, one of the most innovative and influential studios of recent decades. It is typical of their Deconstructive approach to design: fragmented, busy, but with an underlying sense of structure. See their website here.
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2001
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Buckminster Fuller
Design: Cyan
Buckminster Fuller: Your Private Sky. Design as a Scientific Art
Buckminster Fuller: the legendary American designer, inventor of the Geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car (pictured in the poster). He has a family of molecular structures named after him: Buckminsterfullerenes, after their geodesic forms.They have applications in nano technology.
Another Deconstructivist poster by the German design studio Cyan. See their website here.
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2001
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Bauhaus 1919-1933
Bauhaus 1919-1933
This is a very good example of The New Typography, the 1920s movement in graphic design that was promoted at the Bauhaus. Even though this poster was designed eighty years later in 2002, it shows the New Typography principles of asymmetry and grid layout. Note the alignments of text, the reversals of letters and numbers, and the contrast of type size and colour. These features create movement and energy – the eye moves freely around the design.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 1998
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The Bauhaus weaves
Designer unknown
The Bauhaus Weaves: the textile workshop at the Bauhaus.
Photograph of a young Bauhaus textile student, shot through the loom. The flatness of the subject matches that of the 2D poster itself. Note the extreme contrast between the scale of the photograph and the lettering. The text is in a period-looking font, set all in lower case, which was an innovation of the Bauhaus. The colours are Complementaries: blue and yellow.
Poster: Bauhaus-Museum Weimar 1999
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