Geometric forms/Geometric typography/Bauhaus

In this workshop we continued the last week's exploration of typeform.. We had had to create letters using only geometric shapes like circles, squares and triangles.The intention of creating an entire alphabet from a few shapes is a design challenge - problem solving at its purest; It is challenging for me because I'm restricted in terms of curve forms, which would have given me more freedom to create the letters. Simple shapes have always been part of many architectural designs such as the Islamic, Arabic and Bauhaus ideology. To be able to play with these basic shapes shows the ability to understand the foundation of all other design forms.I have attached photos of my work done in college. The first 3 photos I've attached are what I started at college as sketches from which I later built the whole alphabet in Illustrator

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BAUHAUS

“Architects, painters, sculptors, we must all return to crafts! For there is no such thing as “professional art”. There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman. By the grace of Heaven and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the will, art may unconsciously blossom from the labour of his hand, but a base in handicrafts is essential to every artist. It is there that the original source of creativity lies.

Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! Let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future together. It will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.” — Walter Gropius

Commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was an art school in Germany opened by Walter Gropius , that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term Bauhaus - literally "house of construction" - was understood as meaning "School of Building".

The idea was the creation of the Bauhaus '' totally '' work of art. Bauhaus had a profound influence on the development of graphic and industrial design, and typography. The idea was to Bauhaus architecture is strictly functional, economical and mass production oriented. In the mid-30s German Jews architects emigrated to Palestine after the rise og the Nazis, where the Bauhaus managed actively to develop. In Tel Aviv are preserved the largest number of buildings in this style, known under the name of the ''White city of Tel Aviv''.I personally find common architectural elements between the Bauhaus style and the Socialist realism or even Russian constructivism. The three styles are focusing on the use of pure forms in creating the design. Emphasis on simplicity and functionality - using the geometry for the construction of forms of design. My first association with the Bauhaus in artistic circles, was the Russian painter Kandinsky. Kandinsky was attracted to a position in the field of culture in Russia, then under the influence of Socialist realism. Later, he was forced to leave his homeland, accused of inability to understand Soviet pursuit of realistic art. Leaving-he became a teacher at the Bauhaus until its closure in 1933 where he met with Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus, which dominated his works.The relationship of colour to form was of central significance to Kandinsky's thinking. The Bauhaus's characteristic assignment of the three primary colours - red, yellow and blue to the square, triangle and circle was based on a survey that Kandinsky carried out of the Bauhaus Weimar.