Design is fine. History is mine.

Josef Albers, teaching the Bauhaus Basic Course in Weimar, 1928. It is origami here, as a basic tool to experiment with form, dimension and material. Very progressive at that time. He was the only “studied” teacher at the Bauhaus.

For Albers, design was a process, not an end product. It was about both form and the meaning of form. There were studies in size and proportion, illusion (the appearance of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface), paper folding and wire sculpture, lettering, proportion, symmetry and asymmetry, figure-background, and arrangement of elements, among others. Students wrote their names backwards and upside down, with their left and their right hands, to break habits and to develop eye-hand coordination and motor skills.