"Typography is a service art, not a fine art"
Hebert Bayer was born on April 5th 1900 in Haag, Austria. In his childhood, Bayer regularly draw the landscape. He studied under Georg Schmidthammer in the school a Linz, Austria where Bayer introduced to the arts and craft movement. At the age 21, he moved to Weimar, Germany to study in Bauhaus. Gropius interviewed Bayer by himself. Because his early training, he could pass the prohibition period and entered as a full time student. His first teacher was Wassily Kandinsky in the mural workshop. Later on, he was getting interested into typography. After he finished mural workshop, he work in Berchtesgaden, Germany. In 1925, He came back to Bauhaus to be a master of the workshop for graphic design and printing for three years. At that year Bayer started to develop a typeface without upper cases, a geometric sans serif Proposal for a Universal Typeface. He mentioned "why do we write and print with two different alphabets simultaneously? we do not speak a capital 'A' and a small 'a'"
Bayer left Bauhaus in 1928 to become art director of Vague Magazine in Berlin. In 1930, he moved to Dorland studio. Bayer move to USA in 1938. He moved to Colorado in 1946 till the rest of his life. To know what range of field that he did just amused me. He is not only did graphic design but also painting, photography, sculptor, environment design, interior and architecture. He is truly a very talented person. He said "The creative proces is not performed bye skilled hand alone, or by intellect alone, or by intellect alone, but must be a unified process in which "head, heart and hand" play a simultaneous role."
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