Integrative Studio: Design Squares/Bauhaus Designs

For this project we were tasked with creating a contrast design square design inspired by the Bauhaus teachings. To start, we were asked to make six-seven design squares, which we were to choose from to build a cohesive series. This project was not about style, rather about discovering contrasting shape-space possibilities in the two dimensional paper-field. Each new design that we made has to be relatable to the last, yet independent from it as well. I think that was one of the biggest challenges from this project.

There isn’t much to explain for my design since it was more about spontaneity than about a specific design style. In the beginning of the process, I remember making very elaborate and systematic designs, but that’s until Professor Rachel really analyzed my work and told me to reduce the amount of cuts because even as little as three to six cuts could transform a single design more than many cuts could. I was inspired by this and took this advice into account when working on a new series. The final piece below is a result of what I came up with. The lightest grey is my original six-design squares and working off of that I added contrasting shades of grey and black to enhance my design. I was focusing very hard on the shape to space possibilities and really thinking about how these different design squares could come together as a whole. I think I put in a good amount of grey and black contrasting pieces. I also unintentionally noticed that there were repeating motifs of staircases in my work, which I came to love quite a lot. 

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