The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by architect Walter Gropius. Literally translated as “building house,” the Bauhaus style was born out of the challenge of designing basic necessities like buildings, tables, and chairs, with the core idea that form follows function.

In 1925 the school moved to the industrial city of Dessau, where its ideal of creating a new unity of crafts, art, and technology flourished. Many now-iconic designers called the Bauhaus home, and their legacy of industrial design and functional yet striking typography lives on today.

Typography from Bauhaus Dessau is instantly recognizable. Simple geometric forms, unadorned with serifs. Vibrant, expressive colors. Balanced layouts that convey a clear and direct message. Some of the world’s most celebrated ad layouts, political posters, album covers, and logo designs owe their power to lettering designs created at Bauhaus Dessau.

For this project, you will develop systems of visual organization and learn more typography skills in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. Research your typeface's history as well as the typeface designer. Write a short paragraph about your typeface and its designer that you will use as copy on your poster. It should provide information about the typeface and fit with your design concept to help 'sell' the typeface.

When I started this project the Xants font stood out to me immediately because of the distinct dot/ circle on multiple of the letters and symbols. I wanted to make a poster that highlighted that unique feature of the font. At first I wanted to mix the last sketch with some of the mountains that were in a few of the other sketches since the creator of Xants was from Switzerland. Once I did it I decided I didn't like it that much so I went in a different direction. I also had both blue and red in the poster and then decided that just having red as a spot color for the dots would highlight that feature best.