Joschmi’s original designer, Joost Schmidt, led the advertising, typography and printing workshop at the school, and was responsible for its widely recognised 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition poster. Xanti ...

Adobe and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation teamed up to turn fragments of five unfinished typeface designs from the 1920s and '30s into full-fledged digital typefaces.

Adobe is releasing five fonts based on designs by prolific Bauhaus figures, which have been revived by German typographer Erik Spiekermann and a group of students. The typeface designs were "lost ...

The typeface Joschmi, which is based on work by Bauhaus teacher Joost Schmidt, is perhaps the most compelling. The letters, which have the look of blocky stencils, were created from just six ...

Here (in no particular order) typographers, designers and other industry experts pick their top type of the 1930s. For more inspiration from the history of typography, check out our best ...

“The font that sums up this movement was the font commissioned by the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius from the designer Herbert Bayer. It was meant to be an ‘idealist typeface’, resulting in ...

True to form, perhaps the most mythic typeface to come out of the Bauhaus, Universal, was one that strove to be as idealistic as the school itself. The inclusion of an upper case was deemed ...

The Hidden Treasures Bauhaus Dessau is a project Adobe launched in collaboration with Erik Spiekermann, a typeface designer who has worked with clients including Cisco, Mozilla, and Autodesk.The ...

In particular, he looked to Herbert Bayer, the famed typeface designer who created Bayer Universal, a geometric, sans-serif font that perfectly encapsulated the Bauhaus’ stark aesthetic. That ...

The German design school that launched the world into modernism is synonymous with almost every aspect of the 20th century, from concrete-slab towers to cantilevered chairs and sans-serif fonts ...