Herbert Bayer

This poster is more forward in my opinon.
It gets to the point without seeming too open.


The austrian-born American painter, typographer, designer, and photographer. After initial training as an architect, Bayer studied at the Weimar Bauhaus with Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, and Oskar Schlemmer, then headed the workshop for printing and advertising (1925-8) after the school's move to Dessau. In Berlin over the following decade, before he emigrated to the USA in 1938, he had a varied career in advertising and exhibition design in Berlin, and in 1928-30 was art director for the German edition of Vogue. He also turned increasingly to photography as his preferred medium, producing photomontages and modernistic, sometimes abstract images influenced by Surrealism. In New York he designed several exhibitions for MoMA, then moved to Colorado in 1946, where his creative versatility remained undiminished.