Peter Behrens contribution to graphic design
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Peter Behrens was an artist, architect, and designer who played a major role in setting the pace for design in the first decade of the new century. He was known to many as "the first industrial designer" because many of his designs were made in to teapots and streetlamps. He reformed typography and was big into the sans-serif type. He was also a first to begin using a grid system to structure space in his design. Most of his early paintings took on the Jugendstil style instead of the social realism look. In 1900 Behrens's received a grant from the Grand Duke of Hessen in order for him to design and build a home. Behrens's designed his own home along with the furniture, cutlery and even the china. All that work however ended up being invaluable.
Behrens was most concerned with typography and its role in graphic design rather that all the other stuff that the critics were interested in. He believed that typography was "the most characteristic picture of a period and the strongest testimonial of the spiritual progress...