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From Bauhaus to Apple
How school, object, and interface turned out to be one discipline: a line from the teaching workshop to the screen environment.
About this collection
This route follows one line: how a method worked out in a teaching workshop reached the industrial object and then the screen interface. At every step the material changes and the question does not — how to record a decision so that another person can execute it.
School and method
- Bauhaus — the first attempt to unite art, craft, and industry into one system.
- Bauhaus after Bauhaus: how the school became a world system — how closure gave the school its worldwide reach.
- Ulm: design after heroic modernism — an attempt to replace the authorial gesture with method and research.
- Ulm Stool — multifunctionality as a curriculum in a single object.
The object as system
- Braun: how product design became a system — how an aesthetic turned into a repeatable grammar.
- Dieter Rams — less but better — a method of selection, not an appearance.
- 606 Universal Shelving System — a storage system as a decades-long promise of compatibility.
- Vitsœ 606: a system designed for decades — longevity as organisational rather than aesthetic discipline.
The company interface
- Apple: industrial design as the company interface — industrial design gains the right to decide beyond the object.
- Minimalism — reduction, space, and the discipline of form.
- Why a design system outlives an individual designer — what actually transfers when the author leaves.