Module 7: Herbert Bayer

Pioneers of Information Design
                                          Herbert Bayer

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This is the image that set me off in a different direction than Bayer for my field journal. I still don't know about this particular image but it's credited to Bayer by the New York Museum of Art.
http://moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A399&page_number=7&template_id=1&sort_order=1

10 Banknotes, designed for the State Bank of Thuringia:

The Museum of Modern Art In New York

Each area of Germany had its own bank notes because of the instability of the economy at the time.






The Bauhaus type influence
Contemporary to  Kurt Schwitters and Jan Tschichold, his style in type aimed for a clean, universal and 'phonetic' type which featured san serif and no capital letters (for Bauhaus publications) and later on a development of his own typeface (the 'universal', 1925) [1], now issued in digital form as Bayer Universal[3].  Later, in 1945 (already living in the US having escaped from the Nazi domination) he'd use this same base to create the English Phonetic alphabet, "...which featured a combination of capital letters an lowercase characters, as well as symbols for for the endings -ed, -ory, -ing, and -ion, as well as the digraphs "ch", "sh", and "ng". An underline indicated the doubling of a consonant in traditional orthography." This latter inspired the 'archetype Bayer'. http://hogd.pbworks.com/w/page/18698612/Herbert-Bayer-banknote-1923 (also most of the bank note images except as noted.)

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Works by Bayer at New York's The Museum of Modern Art.