Our challenge was to create a type specimen publication for the Neubau typeface and the centenary of the Dessau campus. It needed to be intrinsically Bauhaus for a German audience.

We crafted Bauhausbücher 15 is a handmade, hardback book based on the Bauhausbücher 1 - 14 publications produced between 1926 and 1929, and is the next in the series, celebrating the centenary of the opening of the Bauhaus College of Design in Dessau, Germany, in 1926. It is also a type specimen for Neubau, showcasing all four weights throughout.

The book consists of four sections looking at the history of the Bauhaus movement, the Dessau campus, Bayer’s Universal typeface, and finally the type specimen for Neubau.

It is a handmade, perfect-bound, screen-printed hardback book and is presented with a light shining through a screen-printed Perspex sheet to honour the shadow photography of Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy.