Many now-iconic designers called the Bauhaus home, and their legacy of industrial design and functional yet striking typography lives on today” notes Adobe. “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. There, at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the birthplace of modern design, which was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by architect Walter Gropius 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.
Nearly a century after the school was founded, a new generation of typelovers came to the Bauhaus school building in Dessau, Germany, to continue the typographic work of students who worked generations before them. Erik Spiekermann and an international team of students facilitated the efforts to turn lost letter fragments and sketches into fully functional typefaces.
Now Adobe pays tribute to the iconic typographic archive in an attempt to inspire a new generation of designers with five beautiful alphabets which have been meticulously completed and digitized.
After almost 100 years, original typography sketches and unpublished letter fragments from the legendary Bauhaus school of design were rediscovered.
