Founded as a German art school in 1919, Staatliches Bauhaus commonly known simply as Bauhaus would remain in operation for only 14 years before closing under pressure from Germany’s Nazi regime. Nonetheless, the school’s ideology and founding principles lived on in the Bauhaus movement, which had a monumental impact on art across a spectrum of disciplines, from architecture to graphic design to typography. And now, in 2018, working at one of the original Bauhaus school buildings in Dessau, Germany, renowned typographer Erik Spiekermann and a group of design students have created digital typefaces based on type sketches and fragments that were hand drawn at the school in the 1920s and 1930s and these typefaces are coming to Adobe Typekit.
