Bauhaus Typography at 100 explores the school’s unique legacy in graphic design and typography through artifacts of its own making – its books, magazines, course materials, product catalogs, stationery, promotional fliers, and other ephemera — as well as objects created by its many students and teachers before and after the time of the school. The exhibition draws a throughline from the Bauhaus’s iconic style to the shape of typography today.

A collaboration with San Francisco-based Letterform Archive, the exhibition features work by Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Joost Schmidt, and Herbert Bayer along with others whose innovative typographic contributions are often overlooked, including women such as Friedl Dicker. For more information about the exhibition, click here to watch a conversation between Executive Director Lissa Ballinger and Curator Rob Saunders recorded in August 2024 as part of the Aspen Community Programs McCloskey Speaker Series.

Curious to know more? Watch here as Rob Saunders and graphic designer Paula Scher discuss the roots of typography and how design innovation takes its cues from the past. Debbie Millman, host of the podcast “Design Matters” moderates the conversation, held at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2024.

Funding for the exhibition is provided by the estate of Ann M. Korologos. Additional support provided by Lynda and Stewart Resnick. All photos credited to Tony Prikryl.