Triangle, Circle, Square
Sage Won
The Bauhaus was more than a school for art and design. It was a laboratory for ideas that would define the ethos of 20th-century Modernism. The central figures of this movement sought to find a universal or ideal visual language. To this end, color and form were reduced to their essence. The applied arts were to embody the efficiencies of the machine age, harmonizing function, and aesthetics.
Triangle, Circle, Square is a project that embraces the utopian spirit of the Bauhaus but harnesses the technology of 21st-century generative code. Treating the web as my canvas, I program scripts that produce an infinite range of letterforms using the most basic building blocks of the Bauhaus. If the original Bauhaus represents a classical Newtonian model of rational shapes and relationships, my scheme is the unstable quantum update: Alphabets are comprised of randomly sized Bauhaus particles, the structure of layout morphs in relation to content, the division between typography and image dissolves.