In the readings, typography was talked a lot about and it was the commonly used method that was taught as a new form of communication. Typography is the communication done through the use of both type (text) and photo (images/illustrations). From what I gathered, this was the commonly used method to communicate because it brought the viewer more interactivity such as reading, seeing, and thinking. One interesting point made was that it requires the human body a lot of energy to see work (text/photo) because we use our eyes and while awake, the eyes never fully rest.

Another approach to this that I questioned was if there existed a feeling of limitation while working with typography? The book as a whole requires reading through our eyes, and what we are reading is a text of our language. Once photography was invented, it became a new tool that writers could implement along with it. From books, grew newspaper, magazine, posters, and so forth. Each and every time, the aesthetic design by using both type and image could only change in that way. So, the question brought up is if there will be a change that isn’t just a design change, but a change overall. Such as a new method to read by changing the alphabet or a new invention to intake the information. Would books always remain the same?

The Bauhaus was also talked about and from what I knew about the Bauhaus is that it was an art school in Germany founded by Walter Gropius. It was a school that brought concepts of design together and trained students to use it as a unity. From the article, Gropius speaks on the isolation of the artist. This was a new perspective for me because he speaks of how the program was created to teach and produce geniuses in the field. When the students would finish the program, not all would be “geniuses” and this gave way to a feeling of isolation. Artists would be left with “fruitless activities”. I did not see the Bauhaus in this way before. I looked at the Bauhaus as a design school of its time that brought different components of art into one unified whole to create forms that could be seen in the everyday life. Most of the designs felt abstract yet linear and geometric.