Saturday, October 1, 2011

Universal 1925

The Bauhaus's leading typographer Herbert Bayers is responsible for much of their Iconic work. In 1927 hisUniversal Typeface mixed upper and lowercase lettering and with not a serif in sight conventions were shattered. Not satisfied with mixing cases he standardised on a lowercase typeface for many later Bauhaus publications. He went on to be art director at German Vogue.

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