For this project I have to work as a group of five people and deliver a ten minute presentation. My group, group one was given the topic of ‘Bauhaus and the New Typography’. For this presentation each person will have to discuss different aspects of the overall topic which meant the group had to come up with the main topics ourselves.
The first thing I did for this project was created a group chat and a Miro board which was shared to all the members so everyone could collaborate outside of class time.
The very first step of this project would be to come up with five different topics as their is five members of the group. The five I planned was ‘What is Bauhaus’, ‘How the Bauhaus influenced modern design’, ‘What is New Typography’, and ‘How the New Typography influenced modern design’ and ‘The Artists of the Bauhaus’.
As I planned all these myself, which I was open for more ideas on topics or for the topics to be changed. I thought these were good topics as they were all linked which has good consistency which they cover the history of our topics and how they have influenced modern design.
In a group meeting in class time I presented my ideas to the team which everyone was happy with these topics, I let my team pick their topics first but some members wanted me to pick before them which I assigned myself to the first topic, ‘What is Bauhaus’. Now that I have my topic to cover for this presentation I can now start proper research.
As the Bauhaus was covered in Week five I already knew some facts of the Bauhaus such as some artists but I wanted to research my topic fully to find further information and to go into this with a ‘fresh mind’. Researching will also make sure all my content is correct if from a trustworthy source and not just from my own knowledge and class notes.
As my topic is ‘What is Bauhaus’ I will be going into the basics and history of the Bauhaus. I started my research by simply looking up ‘what is the Bauhaus’ and ‘key points of the Bauhaus’. Some of the basic key points I researched was that it was a art school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius.