Photo: Brent Moss

Intersect VIPs are invited to attend an exclusive private tour of The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies ("The Bayer Center"), a new art exhibition space located on the historic campus of the Aspen Institute in Aspen. Art tours last approximately 60 minutes and include a guided overview of our galleries and our current exhibition, Concept of a Visualist: Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas.

This exhibit, which will be on view in the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, examines Herbert Bayer’s 1953 World Geo-Graphic Atlas, a landmark work of visual education and modernist design. Commissioned by Walter Paepcke to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Container Corporation of America, the World Geo-Graphic Atlas was first presented at the 1953 International Design Conference at the Aspen Institute. In the seventy years since its publication, the atlas has come to occupy a key place within graphic design history. Characterized by Bayer as “the concept of a ‘visualist,’” the work’s imaginative approach to information design transformed the look and character of subsequent geographic atlases and popular scientific illustration. Its overarching message, moreover, proved to be prescient, with its emphasis on conserving natural resources and its warnings of potential environmental catastrophe. Marking the seventieth anniversary of the atlas’s publication, this is the first exhibition devoted to this groundbreaking and influential work.

This is a VIP event (VIP/All Access Pass required).