USING THIS SKIN

This CoolPlayer skin comes in four modes:
- XL (very large with equalizer)
- L (large but equalizer left out)
- M (smaller)
- S (as small as possible).
The large ones have oversized buttons that make them very easy to use. To switch between the four modes, click the yellow CoolPlayer smiley in the upper left corner.

NO PLAYLIST YET

So far I could not get CoolPlayer to display any external skin for the playlist, not even  those made by the best skinners... :-( So although I did make a Bauhaus playlist skin, I could just not test and complete it. Until I have figured out what is wrong, these skins will use the default Coolplayer playlist skin.

ABOUT BAUHAUS

This skin is based on "irregular regularity", a design concept developed in Germany between 1928-1930 by Walter Gropius, architect of the modernist Bauhaus group.

Bauhaus designers used clear rectangular elements and hardly any curves. Their elements related to a series of visible or virtual grids. "Irregular regularity", one of the basic rules, meant that the grids were coherent but their outline and alignment could vary. For example, if you had a series of exactly identical elements, you could put those in different grids so some elements might overlap each other: at first sight this made look the elements unaligned, yet the whole was systematical. In this way the clear rectangular Bauhaus designs avoided monotony.

Bauhaus was brutally repressed in 1934, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazis made their horrible kitsch the official style: to get an idea, imagine a marble statue of a helmeted Darth Vader holding a weeping girl on the doorstep of some kind of giant cuckoo clock. In Germany many Bauhaus products and buildings were destroyed by the Nazis, but elsewhere Bauhaus ideas lived on: like in the late-1930s grid paintings of abstract painter Piet Mondrian, or in the pure and angular buildings that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the 1940s.

This skin's muted colors go straight back to a later design classic in the same minimalist tradition: the famous Braun "rubber-button" HiFi stereo amplifier from 1967.
