![]() “I think that that trend is coming, specifically, from so many designers getting excited about the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus, which was 2019.” “Back to Bauhaus was one of the first we identified specifically, in the return to the craft ,” says Shea Molloy, vectors and illustrations lead at Adobe Stock, on Back to Bauhaus as a 2021 design trend. It may seem, at first, that a school that centralized craftsmanship as a core value would have little place in a digital era, but the emphasis on craft can be as meaningful to graphic design as the physical craft of woodworking was to the original Bauhaus School. Image source: Top left: Adobe Stock/ Good Studio, Top right: Adobe Stock/ Norm Form, Bottom left: Adobe Stock/ Royal Studio, Bottom right: Adobe Stock/ Cute Designs. ![]() ![]() Though the burgeoning intellectual and artistic landscape of post-WWI Germany and Austria soon gave way to much more oppressive politics, we can still feel the ethos of the Bauhaus in modern design in a widespread emphasis on functionality, accessibility, and education. Much of contemporary architecture - and indeed, the entire concept of “liberal arts education” - owe a debt to this influential school and its radical take on aesthetics, function, and education, as well as other experiments in social progress that briefly flourished in Germany between the two World Wars. Students of the Bauhaus School simultaneously learned art, architecture, and technical craft, at the campus which was based in Weimar for six years, then relocated to Dessau through 1932, and finally made one last move to Berlin in 1933, before closing under mounting pressure due to the rise of Fascism in Germany. The school offered a curriculum that was radical for its time, combining two Weimar-based schools - the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts - under a single roof. Today, Bauhaus philosophy and aesthetics have practitioners across the world, all of which can be pinpointed to a very specific origin: an experimental higher education institution called the Staatliches Bauhaus (“house of building”), which was founded in Germany in 1919. ![]()
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