Bauhaus vs Bauhaus Graphic Design
Bauhaus Graphic Design is the cross-discipline counterpart of Bauhaus — the graphic and typographic workshop of the same Bauhaus school.
Bauhaus
The German school that fused art, craft, and industry into a functional modernism — clean geometry, flat roofs, and 'form follows function' applied to the whole designed world.
- Rejection of applied ornament; function expressed as form
- Clean rectilinear geometry and flat roofs
- Glass curtain walls and ribbon windows
- Honest, industrial materials
- Unity of art, craft, and mass production
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
At a glance
| Bauhaus | Bauhaus Graphic Design | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1919–1933 |
| Discipline | Architecture | Graphic Design |
| Region | Germany | Germany |
| Family | Modernism | Modernism, Bauhaus |
| Formal traits | geometric, minimal, functional, unornamented | asymmetric, sans-serif, geometric, grid-based |
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