Laszlo Moholy-Nagly

Laszlo Moholy-Nagly first studied as a law student but during his three year military service he took up drawing which he followed up with evening classes on figure drawing and late joined a hungarian free art school, which subsequently voluntarily quit law school/
He was then appointed a master specializing in typography and film making at Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar but left five years later to open his own studio. During his time at Staatliches he created a 
catalogue for the exhibition at the school.

Within the book he used innovative image and text layouts to represent the designers work. He got a lot of influence from contructivism which originated in Russia. The design of the binding was by Herbert Bayer, which is still different to most of todays binding techniques. His use of block capital letters were also quite new to design, with its two colour block printing technique, it added a modern look to a book front cover.

Later on in his his career, he joined designers in becoming a graphic design, this allowed his to move to Amsterdam and then later on, London. This gave him opportunities to work on commissioned documentary films.

For the rest of his career he worked as a freelance artist and designer until his death in 1946.

One of his contructivist inspired paintings from 1922


http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/werke/cover-of-the-bauhaus-exhibition-catalogue-1923
http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/werke/construction-z1
http://www.moholy-nagy.com/Biography_1.html