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Bauhaus Typography at 100

Creative Review

Offset: Book and Advertising Art, Bauhaus Issue vol. It was in the workshops that “Bauhaus typography took on its distinctive form — its rejection of serifs and capitals, embrace of experimental alphabets, insistence on universal clarity, and innovation in layering and hierarchy,” the archive adds.

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9 Best Design Colleges in Los Angeles (2022 list)

Shillington

Otis Graphic Design students are offered study in UX/UI, typography and type design and other typical graphic design skills, whilst also learning printmaking and traditional letterpress skills. Students also create work throughout their degree, which is subject to critiques, reviews and workshops. California Institute of The Arts.

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Top 8 Graphic Design Schools to Launch Your Career

Inkbot Design

Its MA in Visual Communication admits just 35 students annually, emphasising conceptual visual narratives and clarity of creative thinking grounded in research.

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Louise Sandhaus Uplifts the Stories of Graphic Design’s Unsung Makers

Eye on Design

Born in 1955 near Boston, MA to parents who were both creative professionals, Sandhaus grew up in the kind of design-filled home that had a printmaking workshop—which doubled as a ping pong table—in its basement. Even before she studied design formally, Sandhaus had always been surrounded by it.

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Soirée Fantastique

Fonts in Use

These are the same streets and squares where the posters once were posted and viewed, and some pictures actually show the venues where the advertised attractions like circus and variety shows took place. The fonts in use are various wood, brass, and metal types from the poster type collection of the HGB’s printmaking workshop.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

What Images Really Tell Us: Visual Rhetoric in Art, Graphic Design, and Advertising by Massimo Mariani. Spanning over fifty years, the book leads us from Kitching’s first typographical experiments under the auspices of mentor Anthony Froshaug to his most iconic creations at The Typography Workshop. Buy the book. Buy the book.