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#UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. The School of Design in #Dessau. The #Bauhaus as a locus for the avant-garde. Photo © Ralph Graef

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It’s roughly 15 months from Election Day 2022. It’s not too early to make people aware of the importance of voting in a midterm election.

Trump isn’t going away. And his minions like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott are actively trying to sabotage the fight against COVID-19 to curry favor with his anti-science followers.

Democracy is never “one and done”. It requires booster shots every two years. Just because Trump lost in 2020 doesn’t mean we’ll be safe from bad guys forever and ever.

If you have any video or graphic skills and are committed to democracy, consider making a public service message to encourage pro-democracy people to register and vote in 2022.

Last year 14 communication design juniors at Carnegie Mellon University School of Design each created a public service message in connection with StudentVote.org to encourage people to vote in the 2020 election. This vid shows the results of their work.

Midterms are a harder sell though they’re just as important as presidential elections.

It was in the 2018 midterms that Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives despite GOP gerrymandering. Imagine what the electoral vote counting in January would have been like if the smarmy Kevin McCarthy had been House Speaker. 😳

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Week Seven - Bauhaus (LECTURE)

The bauhaus was a school of design located in Germany, its approach to teaching design influenced all other schools of design during the time. It was founded by Walter Gropius and was a male dominated institution as Walter Gropius believed that women couldn’t think in 3 dimensions, so the women working in the Bauhaus worked on only 2 dimensional art activities such as weaving and painting. I find it kind of ironic that back then it was so male dominant when today our communication design course is very much the opposite, with our course having upwards of 75% being females. 

Something important to note about the Bauhaus is the efficiency of form. As can be seen above, the chess set pieces by Josef Hartwig were crafted to represent their moves as well as to fit compactly into their packaging. The furniture pictured on the right shows how space has been used to create storage in an efficient way, every aspect of the design has been crafted to maximise organisation and storing of different objects, from the smaller draws to the larger cupboard doors.  Also important to focus on is the idea of reducing to essential, everything serves a purpose, nothing is just a decoration. 

Pictured next are some postcards from a Bauhaus exhibition, my personal favourite is the middle postcard. I love the use of black, grey, and red, the design is very minimal but very visually interesting. There’s curves and circles which contrast with straight lines and there’s even text written on a curved path which also contrast with the text written on a horizontal path. I’m just drawn to the design, it’s so bold but balanced very nicely, it has a satisfying pop of colour and shapes. 

More people that were influential during Bauhaus include Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer responsible for the Triadic Ballet and Wassily Kandinsky a painter. 

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The 2017 DAAPworks show highlights for me: Product/ Industrial Design (part 3)