Herbert Bayer, who left his teaching post at the Bauhaus in 1928, published a typeface named Bayer-Type through the Berthold type foundry in the 1930s.
#Geometric typeface series
Albers’s was able to commercialize his stencil experiments his Kombinationschrift was released as a series of patterns for glass makers. Of the Bauhäusler, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, and Joost Schmidt were most associated with letter design. The Bauhaus did not have the facilities to accommodate this sort of activity. Fonts were produced, sold, and distributed by large companies with hundreds of employees working in factory settings. During the 1920s and 30s, typecasting was still an industrial activity. While a number of letter drawing experiments were undertaken there, no typefaces were created. Some contemporary designers may assume that typefaces were developed at the Bauhaus, but this is not the case. However, the role that Bauhaus designers played in the popularization of geometric letter styles is minimal, and their role in the development of geometric typefaces is tangential. The starting point for many investigations into this theme is work from the Bauhaus. This article will highlight a few-but not all-prominent examples.
By repeating a series of basic shapes, all of the forms of our writing system may be easily recreated, or at least approximated. Designers pride themselves on their ability to create complex systems from simple elements, and the alphabet is no exception. Graphic design and printing has engaged with geometric letters for at least a century.
0 kommentar(er)
