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21/08/2026

Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus existed for only 14 years, moving from Weimar to Dessau and finally Berlin, yet it became one of the most influential schools in the history of modern design.

Across the leadership of Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the school brought together architecture, typography, furniture, photography, textiles and art, challenging traditional ideas about how design should look and function.

Its radical modernism also made it a target of the N***s. After becoming the strongest political party in Dessau, the N***s pushed to shut the school there in 1932. Bauhaus continued privately in Berlin until a police raid and mounting N**i pressure led to its final closure in 1933.

But closing the Bauhaus had an unintended consequence. Figures including Josef Albers, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe eventually left Germany, carrying Bauhaus ideas abroad. Moholy-Nagy even founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, helping a school the N***s tried to suppress become a truly international influence.

Mark Rothko is having a strange second life online. Across TikTok and Instagram, Gen Z creators are turning his painting...
18/08/2026

Mark Rothko is having a strange second life online. Across TikTok and Instagram, Gen Z creators are turning his paintings into outfits, personality types, music references and dating jokes. Some of the videos are pulling hundreds of thousands of views.

One creator offered a simple explanation: Gen Z has grown up surrounded by so many images, ads and screens that visual stimulation is already “at capacity.” Rothko, she argues, leaves the viewer room to decide what to see and feel.

There’s an irony here. Rothko spent much of his career trying to make painting an experience rather than something to simply look at. He cared about scale, space and the physical presence of the viewer. He even wanted people to stand roughly 18 inches from some of his canvases.

Now his paintings are being discovered through a phone screen. Why is Gen Z suddenly into Rothko? We looked into the story.

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14/08/2026

Born in 1920 in New York, Saul Bass is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of graphic design. His legendary relationship with Hollywood began with his work for Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, helping reshape the role graphic design could play in cinema.

Bass moved away from movie posters built around stars and spectacle, instead using bold colors, simple shapes, and negative space to capture the central idea of a film. His distinctive approach led to collaborations with some of cinema’s greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese.

Beyond his iconic posters, Bass transformed the art of the title sequence, turning what had often been treated as simple credits into an important part of the cinematic experience. His work changed the relationship between graphic design and film, leaving an influence that can still be seen across both disciplines today.

11/08/2026

Created around 1531–33, Allegory of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness is one of the masterpieces of Sultan Muhammad, one of the greatest Persian painters of the Safavid era.

Created to accompany verses by Hafez, the painting transforms his words into an entire visual world, filled with characters, patterns, calligraphy, color, humor, and countless tiny stories.

Sultan Muhammad belonged to an extraordinary era of Persian miniature painting, shaped by masters such as Behzad, one of its most influential figures.

And a well deserved shout out to نوداستان | Nowdastan for his wonderful research and storytelling around this painting and the world inside it.

10/08/2026

On this episode of our Graphic Designers You Should Know About in 50 Seconds series, we look at Gunter Rambow, one of the most influential voices in graphic design.

Rambow is known for his striking conceptual posters that use photography and simple everyday objects to deliver powerful social and political messages. He created some of his most iconic works for the S Fischer publishing house, turning book covers into bold visual metaphors. He also co-founded several influential design studios throughout his career and later became a professor, shaping generations of designers with his focus on critical thinking and conceptual clarity.

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Long before a book is opened, its cover is the first introduction to the story inside.Designers and artists such as S. N...
07/08/2026

Long before a book is opened, its cover is the first introduction to the story inside.

Designers and artists such as S. Neil Fujita, Chip Kidd, David Pelham, Francis Cugat, and Paul Bacon created book covers that became inseparable from the stories they represented. Some became so iconic that when the books were adapted for film, their visual identities followed them to the screen, including S. Neil Fujita’s famous puppet-hand design for The Godfather.

In many cases, these covers became more than packaging for a book. They became the lasting visual identity of the story itself.

04/08/2026

Born in 1932 in Tokyo, Shigeo Fukuda is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Japanese graphic design. Through his work, he transformed graphic design into a playful language of visual illusion, proving that the simplest ideas could often leave the strongest impression.

Fukuda’s designs combined minimalism, wit, optical illusion, and conceptual thinking. Rather than communicating ideas directly, he invited viewers to pause, look again, and discover hidden meanings, creating posters, advertisements, and visual identities that challenged perception while remaining remarkably simple.

Though he is best known for his iconic posters and visual illusions, Fukuda’s career extended far beyond graphic design into sculpture, public art, editorial work, and visual puzzles. His work demonstrated that design could entertain, provoke thought, and communicate powerful social messages, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire designers around the world.

30/07/2026

Before fashion magazines, there were fashion plates.

Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette at The Frick Collection in New York is entering its final week on view (through August 3).

The exhibition explores how beautifully hand-colored engravings became one of the first ways people followed the latest fashion trends across Europe. Featuring works from the Frick Art Research Library’s remarkable collection.

More than 40 years ago, when video game graphics were little more than simple blocks of pixels, the job of selling the g...
28/07/2026

More than 40 years ago, when video game graphics were little more than simple blocks of pixels, the job of selling the game’s world, story, and imagination fell largely to its box art.

Artists such as Cliff Spohn, Susan Jaekel, Rick Guidice, and Steve Hendricks created cinematic paintings that promised adventures far beyond what the hardware could display. In many ways, the box art became the player’s first glimpse into the world they were about to imagine.

24/07/2026

Born in 1918 in New York, Herb Lubalin is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of typography and graphic design. Through his work, he transformed typography into a powerful visual language, proving that words themselves could communicate as effectively as images.

Lubalin’s designs combined expressive letterforms, bold composition, wit, and conceptual thinking. Rather than treating typography as a secondary element, he made it the central idea, creating logos, magazine layouts, and visual identities that changed how designers approached the relationship between words and images.

Though he is best known for his groundbreaking typography and the iconic Avant Garde logotype, Lubalin’s career spanned a wide range of disciplines including editorial design, branding, advertising, and posters. His work continues to inspire generations of designers, demonstrating the expressive potential of typography.

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