The course price includes lunch on course days, a welcome package, excursions, and a social programme as well as the farewell and welcome events.
This course is open to students of graphic design, architecture, product design, or design management as well as beginners and interested people with design experience who want to (re-)discover, refresh and expand the basics of visual design principles.
There are no prerequisites for participation.
“Everything starts from a dot.” Wassily Kandinsky
Discover design principles by working with visual elements (dot, line, shape). It's about composition, creativity and developing aesthetic skills in the context of Bauhaus. The fundamental language of design principles by working with design elements is the topic of the course. The focus is on composition, perception, creativity and developing aesthetic skills. Orientation is given by the visual language of the Bauhaus design. Visual elements like dot, line, shape are used to experience effects and rules of design principles such as proportion, connection, balance, unity and contrast. Abstract simple exercises lead to individual and more complex works. We work mainly with black and white using paper, collage, pen, scissors and computer. The programme is based on contemporary studies that are developed further from the teaching concepts of the Bauhaus-period foundation course. Besides the practical work, subsidiary information about the Bauhaus-period foundation course and the Bauhaus Master's will be provided. The teaching concepts of artists such as Itten, Albers, and Kandinsky will be explored in a modern context.
We look forward to welcoming you!
The course price includes lunch on course days, a welcome package, excursions, and a social programme as well as the farewell and welcome events.
English language certificate: at least level B1 or comparable
The course fee includes lunch in the canteen on course days.
In addition, with your Bauhaus Summer School ID card, you can purchase breakfast at a reduced rate. Cafeterias serve a wide variety of meals (including vegetarian dishes, snacks, and beverages). If you prefer to cook your own meals, you can buy fresh ingredients at a number of shops in town. There are also many quaint cafés and inexpensive restaurants in Weimar. For a taste of Thuringia, we recommend you buy a Thuringian bratwurst hot off the grill at the Rathausmarkt.
The Bauhaus Summer School has organised an exciting and extensive accompanying programme for its participants. The programme offers excursions, guided tours of Weimar and its surroundings, visits to Weimar's classical sites and museums, game nights, film screenings, sports, parties, and more. Weimar itself also offers a large selection of cultural events, concerts, and theatre performances. You can plan your leisure activities as you like and experience an exciting summer with your fellow students.
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