Background
information
Wikipedia’s article on Bauhaus was a great starting
point:
The Art Story was a great source of
background information, plus links to other articles:
The Bauhaus Museum website provided information about
what was taught at the Bauhaus school:
The Tate has some general information about
Bauhaus:
Videos
Zillion Designs produced a great video on the
essentials of Bauhaus:
The ABCs of the Bauhaus was a good introduction
using the shapes and images of the movement:
Bauhaus: the Face of the 20th
Century is a longer video about Bauhaus:
Graphic
Design
The GreenGinger article ‘Why is Bauhaus still so
influential today’ provided background information on the movement and how it
influenced Graphic Design today:
DesignLab outlined lessons for today’s
designers about Bauhaus and why the web is still Bauhaus:
Fonts
Digital Arts was an introduction to Adobe’s free
Bauhaus fonts:
Looking further into Bayer and his fonts led
me to the New York Times article:
Influential artists
99Designs was good for information about the
influential artists in the Bauhaus movement:
AIGA was good for examples of Bauhaus design:
Art work
My Modern Met showed how the avant-garde
movement transformed modern art along with the history of the Bauhaus movement:
Smashing Magazine is a great collection of
Bauhaus artwork:
I really like Piet Mondrian’s work, and
looked into his influence on the Bauhaus movement. The Art Story was a good resource for
information that ultimately led me to conclude he wasn’t a key figure in the
Bauhaus:
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