Bauhaus

The Bauhaus started so many graphic design movements that it seems necessary for us to visit. I think that in order to be innovative and new in your field you have to know what’s already been done and by visiting the Bauhaus I think I will be able to learn the roots and origins of graphic design and different graphic design movements and in the end be able to better my skills in my career as a graphic designer.

The Bauhaus was the first school to also decide that students needed a foundation course in order to be a well-rounded student and know all of the artistic disciplines before they specialized in their field. I have experience this foundation course ideal through both high school and college. I high I attend a magnet school where I was taught the basics in drawing, photography, film, sculpture, painting, and digital arts. After my first two years I specialized in the digital Arts but I continued to use the skills and ideas that learned in the other disciplines to bring my art to a different level. Repeating this process in college is refreshing my mind in all of the disciplines which I believe will later help me improve my digital art again. I think since I have been through this process it will be very interesting to be at the place where the foundation ideals originated.

I am also excited to go through their library because I think the more past graphic design I see the more I will be able to pull from for my work in the future.

I think Berlin and Dessau will be informative and interesting cities to visit both culturally and from a graphic design stand point and I can’t wait to visit.