Let’s talk about how the Bauhaus has influenced your design education. Designers used to learn on the job as apprentices, but when Bauhaus teachers fled Nazi Germany, their studio classroom methods and curriculum became the model for higher education in art and design around the world. Like most other design schools, the AAU School of Graphic Design curriculum and teaching methods can be traced back to the Bauhaus. We learn by making projects, and teachers help students with the projects almost the same way that masters help apprentices. Respond to the part1 and 2.
Part1: Like the Bauhaus, our design school curriculum usually has foundation classes in subjects such as color theory and drawing. Do you think learning these things is still useful for graphic designers? Why or why not?
Part2: Respond to peer’s thought.
Peer’s Thought: I think that understanding color theory is essential to being a successful designer. Color is makes things aesthetically pleasing, helps emphasize design elements and evokes emotion. It is important for designers to understand color theory so that they choose the right color combinations for their work.
Designers should learn to draw because often, a pencil and paper sketch is the first step in the brainstorming process. Designers are tasked with coming up with a visual solution to a problem. Being able to express an idea with shapes on paper is just as important as knowing how to use the software to execute the final design. I don’t think that designers necessarily need to be classically trained fine artists with the ability to accurately and beautifully render an object on paper. But I do think that the practice of drawing can help develop skills such as spacial awareness, perspective, shadow and light, etc.
September 3rd, 2020 
