In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
In the 1920s and ’30s, the New Typography movement spearheaded by the likes of Jan Tschichold, Karel Teige, Herbert Bayer,…
“Anni Albers is very much a designer’s artist,” says Priyesh Mistry, one of the curators of the Tate Modern’s vast 2019…
Bauhaus design’s impact on today’s graphics is hard to overestimate. Associated with primary colors, thick straight lines slashing across white space,…
Recently, #bauhaus overtook #brutalism as one of the most popular design and architecture hashtags on Instagram. Peruse the associated images…
This is the last week you’ll be reading about the Bauhaus this year (on this site, anyway)—we promise. In Germany…
For the uninitiated, hardcore was a subgenre of punk that has since become most famed for its more political movements…
Late in the winter of 2005, Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M ran an unusual ad in the back of…
We hear time and again that the design “canon” needs a big shakeup—in design education, exhibitions, or simply in the…
“Words divide, pictures unite,” or so went the motto of Isotype’s founder, the philosopher and sociologist, Otto Neurath. From its…
From floor-to-ceiling, the walls at the Gallery of Honour at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum are papered in a dense array of…
In 1955, the winding gulleys of Kolkata in India were awash with large posters and almost translucent paper flyers that…
