Bauhaus Graphic Design vs De Stijl Graphics
Bauhaus Graphic Design was influenced by De Stijl Graphics — took up De Stijl's primary palette and orthogonal grid.
Bauhaus Graphic Design
The functional, geometric graphic language forged at the Bauhaus — lowercase sans-serif type, asymmetric layouts, primary colors, and the marriage of typography with photography into a rational visual system.
- Geometric sans-serif type, often lowercase only
- Asymmetric layouts on a horizontal-vertical structure
- Integration of typography with photography (typophoto)
- Primary colors with black, white, and bold rules
- Functional, grid-organized white space
De Stijl Graphics
The radically reductive Dutch graphic language of De Stijl — strict horizontals and verticals, primary colors with black and white, and geometric letterforms built only from rectangles and the right angle.
- Strictly horizontal and vertical lines — no diagonals or curves
- Primary colors plus black, white, and grey only
- Letterforms constructed from rectangular elements
- Asymmetric balance within an orthogonal grid
- Flat rectangular fields of color as composition
At a glance
| Bauhaus Graphic Design | De Stijl Graphics | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1917–1931 |
| Discipline | Graphic Design | Graphic Design |
| Region | Germany | Netherlands |
| Family | Modernism, Bauhaus | Avant-Garde, Modernism |
| Formal traits | asymmetric, sans-serif, geometric, grid-based | orthogonal, geometric, primary-color, asymmetric |
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