Design for Herbert Bayer’s World Geographic Atlas
Thursday, February 20
12 noon to 1pm
Helen Hamlyn Study Room, Level 4
Vignelli Center for Design Studies

Bayer supervised a team of three designers (Martin Rosenzweig, Henry Gardiner and Masato Nakagawa) over a five-year period to produce this volume for the CCA’s 25th anniversary in 1953. CCA Chairman Walter Paepcke wanted Bayer to produce an atlas that reflected the new geopolitical realities of post-WWII life.

Herbert Bayer’s Design for Die Neue Line Magazine
Wednesday, February 26
12 noon to 1pm
Helen Hamlyn Study Room, Level 4
Vignelli Center for Design Studies

The New Line was the name of the first German lifestyle magazine published from 1929 to 1943. Leipzig publisher Otto Beyer afforded a radical new approach, a journal that paid homage to the new way of life for fashion, literature, travel, art and architecture, from a Bauhaus view.

The Post-Bauhaus Modern Movement in England
Wednesday, March 5
12 noon to 1pm
Helen Hamlyn Study Room, Level 4
Vignelli Center for Design Studies

Following the closing of the German Bauhaus by the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus faculty immigrated to London, including Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer and others. This diaspora lasted for a number of years until these principals of design and architecture moved again to the United States, prior to the beginning of World War II. This will be the first telling of what happened to these major figures in this period in England.

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