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Lots of evidence of Bauhaus quasi-mystic ideas in this test, talking about the 'energy' of a composition, 'visual influence'. All ideas rooted in early 20th cen
by george_morgan 17y ago
Lots of evidence of Bauhaus quasi-mystic ideas in this test, talking about the 'energy' of a composition, 'visual influence'. All ideas rooted in early 20th century abstract expression, which I suppose are now widely accepted but are by no means the universal truths they were presented as.
Some mid-century rational design thrown in for good measure, swiss grid systems etc. which are under going something of a renaissance through their recent discovery by web designers, but they also aren't a universal panacea for design ills. You need only look as far as Jan Tschichold's (a prominent exponent of modern typography) return to traditional typographic forms in his later career for evidence of this.
I don't doubt his assertation that there are a lot of incompetent charlatans in graphic and web design, but I do think his view that modern design educators are failing their students is probably due to many of them having moved on from the Bauhaus/Swiss modernism touch points he seems so firmly attached to.