Herbert Bayer

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Herbert Bayer Austrian type designer and artist, 1900-1985. A very inflential artist, Bayer joined the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student in 1921, and was a professor ("young master" they called those ex-students who became professors) there from 1925-1928. Bayer was head of the workshop of Graphic Design and Printing at the Bauhaus school of architecture and art in Dessau. He fled Nazi Germany in 1938, and worked in New York until 1946 for such clients as Dorland International, Thompson, Wanamaker's, and developing exhibitions and general graphic design for large corporations. In 1946 he moved to Aspen, Colorado and continued as consultant to firms such as Container Corporation of America. He died in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, CA, in 1985. His typefaces include Universalschrift or Universal Alphabet (1925-1930) and Bayer-Type (for Berthold, 1930-1936). See also this image. He is best known for his unicase proposal (as in Universalschrift). Dedicated web site. FontShop link. Picture. Klingspor link. Revivals of his work: At P22: P22 Bayer Fonetik (1997, Michael Want), P22 Bayer Shadow, P22 Bayer Universal. By Jonathan Hill: WerkHaus (2008) is a 5-style revival. Victory Type published Bayer Modern in 2009, and Bayer Sans a decade earlier. Nick Curtis: Debonair Inline NF (2008) expands Herbert Bayer's 1931 experimental, all-lowercase "universal modern face," Architype Bayer-Type, by adding an uppercase and adding an architectural inline treatment. Architype Bayer by The Foundry. Arthaus (2015, Johgn Moore). Paulo Heitlinger did Sturmblund (2008) and Bayer Condensed (2008). Bauhouse Universal (2017, Stephen Bau. Universal Regular (2016, Luca Taddeo). Bayer Next (2014, Sascha Lobe). Struktur (2012, Shiva Nallaperumal). New Universal Tall (2011, Henry La Voo). Bauhaus 93 (URW++). K-haus 105, K-haus 205 (2019). Two typeface families by Adrian Talbot of Talbot Type to celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus. The style is influenced by Herbert Bayer's universal alphabet. A list of commercial typefaces based on Herbert Bayer's work.	EXTERNAL LINKS Herbert Bayer [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type in Austria ⦿ Unicase type design ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Type scene in California ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿