For the group presentation, I was allocated to the group HTML and we decided to choose the Bauhaus and the New typography. After discussing the areas of the presentation we all allocated a theme for each person to discuss. The presentation time limit was 10 mins so that meant two mins each, and we thought that 3-4 slides each would make up the time. I chose to do the introduction slide, What is the Bauhaus?, Walter Gropius and The New Typography. for each of the slides, I added the most important information onto the slide and added additional information to the speaker notes to say during the presentation.
The Bauhaus is an art school in Weimar Germany, that was revolutionary for the time. The school's approach was to remove the teacher-pupil approach and create a community of artists working together, allowing different techniques and disciplines to be combined giving a different perspective to a more industrial world.
The Bauhaus was named after the word Bau which means building and the German word Haus which means house, foreshadowing the new society and community made from this school.
The Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933 because of the pressure from the nazis but the art movement still traveled worldwide.
The Bauhaus was created in 1919 by Walter Gropius a German architect as a response to WWI to try and rebuild the German culture. he aimed to combine arts, crafts and technology to bring back art into everyday life by closing the gap between fine arts and industrial design.
the institution aimed to create a new wave of artists and designers to create new modern and contemporary designs by combining the art forms
The new typography movement was between 1920 and 1930s it brought graphics and information design to central Europe. This art movement was based on the asymmetrical balance of elements, space utilisation and san serif typography.
The old typography's aim was beauty whereas the aim for the new typography movement was for clarity. Jan Tschichold who was a typographer and graphic designer who was an important figure of this modernist movement as he explored clarity and readability in his typography design.
