Elaine Lustig Cohen and Herbert Bayer

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A preview of 2024 seasonal gift selections

A recent gift to the Bayer Center comes with an interesting backstory.

Docomomo US Awards "Citation for Art Preservation” to Herbert Bayer Sculpture.

The former curator of the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum speaks at the reopening of the Walter Paepcke Memorial Building in 2010.

"Bauhaus Typography at 100" curator Rob Saunders and Bayer Center Executive Director Lissa Ballinger discuss the current exhibition and the throughline of its influence in contemporary graphic design.

"Bauhaus Typography at 100" curator 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.

Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke and the Birth of the Aspen Institute.

Andrew Travers looks back on the first school year of Bayer Center educational programming

Addressing the Stanford graduating class of 2005, Steve Jobs describes how a calligraphy class led to the Macintosh becoming the first computer to include beautiful typography.

On the eve of his departure from Aspen for Santa Barbara, 75-year-old Herbert Bayer reflects on nature as inspiration. This film was produced by the Aspen Institute with a grant from Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO).

A short film on the life of Herbert Bayer.

Learn about the genesis of this iconic graphic symbol.

Aspen freelance writer Tim Cooney explores Herbert Bayer's Aspen legacy for this piece, published in Aspen Journalism.

NYU Professor Peder Anker on the myriad ways in which Bayer's visual language expresses a desire to harmonize human relationships with the natural world.

This piece was originally published in local Magazine in June, 2022.

Herbert Bayer's beautiful and mathematically-precise Forum Metall on the grounds of the Lentos Museum in Linz, Austria.

Gates form the front door to a new development in Denver's Broadway Park.

Benjamin Benus, author of Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury in conversation with Bloomberg Philanthropies Kate D. Levin on how the atlas was a precursor to our current world of information design.

See the Bayer Center from anywhere in the world!

Artist Richard Carter in conversation with the Bayer Center’s Penner Manager of Educational Programs, Andrew Traverse, as part of the Aspen Institute's Hurst Lecture Series.

This holiday season, discover Bauhaus-inspired treasures at the Bayer Center Store.

Curator Bernard Jazzar discusses Herbert Bayer's influence in Aspen and how the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies came about.

Watch here as Design Feast's Nate Burgos describes Bayer's intent in making the World Geo-Graphic Atlas. "Each part of the world that the Atlas covers is a world in itself," he says.

While Herbert and Joella Bayer are most associated with Aspen, their artistic influence is very much alive in Denver. Watch here as Gwen Chanzit, Emeritus Curator of Modern Art and Herbert Bayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum discusses Bayer’s Legacy in Denver.

Did you know there are at least eight universal figure-8’s to be found in artwork displays in the Center right now?

On September 15, 2023, we held a live, public event featuring Mike Carpenter, Project Manager for Evergreene Architectural Arts and Andrew Travers, Bayer Center's Penner Manager of Educational Programs.

For more information and to register, click the link above.

Paepcke Gallery Exhibition On View October 2, 2023 - April 12, 2024.

Benjamin Benus and Andrew Travers in conversation with Aspen Institute President and CEO, Dan Porterfield.

Herbert Bayer's 1957 outdoor sculpture gets restored thanks in part to a City of Aspen grant.

Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas continues to encourage people to think differently about geography.

8-foot diameter globe a highlight of new exhibition Charting Space: Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas at 70.

Herbert Bayer’s granddaughter pays homage to In Search of Times Past photomontage on Aspen civic plaza.

City honors sculpture restoration on Aspen Institute campus for ‘outstanding contribution to historic preservation’.

Bayer exhibition in Linz, Austria