Joost Schmidt, map for the Bauhaus in Dessau, 1925
When Gropius decided to move the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau he had to put his new city on the map. Literally. Most appropriately, the responsibility, of drawing the map, fell on Joost Schmidt, the head of Advertising at the Bauhaus. And he drew it at the most ambitious, regional scale. In Schmidt’s drawing, Dessau is unsuspectedly at the center of a pinwheel radiating transportation lines, everything from railroads to airplanes. Yes, even Berlin—population 4 million in 1925—appears on an outside circle of Dessau—population 70,000 the same year. Source
Design is fine. History is mine. 