If you take a moment to think about it turning a hundred must be pretty awful. When it comes to the Bauhaus, however, it is something else: some of the characters of that story, like Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer or Josef Albers, succeeded in developing forward-looking ideas that travelled in time and are still today able to inspire our work as designers. What was founded in 1919 as a revolutionary design school, spread its ideas far beyond Germany’s borders, and managed to make them feel — even today in 2019 — surprisingly familiar and up to date. We were very pleased to be invited to this big party that has already taken place in various cities around the world — including the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz. As presents, we prepared seven visual statements that used the different design and media utopias from the Bauhaus as a starting point. We even received the perfect »wrapping-paper« for the occasion: The ›bauhaus.labor‹ [bauhaus lab]. The seven visual experiments, which will be exhibited alternately throughout twenty-one weeks, were documented in this newspaper under the same name: BAUHAUS.LABOR. In it you will get a taste of our 2019 —­  design proposals, which react visually to some of the historical visions and theories of the 1919 — Bauhaus. Additionally we present you our venture on a graphic prospect of a year 2119, a hundred years later.

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