Sage Won
Triangle, Circle, Square
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 in this movement sought to create a universal or ideal visual language. To this end, they reduced color and form to their essence. The applied arts were used 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 use basic building blocks of the Bauhaus to program scripts that produce an infinite range of letterforms. If the Bauhaus represents a classical Newtonian model of rational shapes and relationships, my scheme is the unstable quantum update: Alphabets are composed of randomly sized Bauhaus particles; the structure of layout morphs in relation to content; the division between typography and image dissolves.
