The notes from the classes of Josef Albers demonstrate the liveliness of his classes and the breadth of topics discussed. This stands in start contrast to the sterile exercises that others came to incorporate into the design curriculum. They are included in their entirety in the expectation that they will enliven the studies of artists, teachers and students alike.

Of the lecturers, Werner Wolff and Peppi Weisberger were visitors to the college. Percy Baker and Mary Caroline Richards were faculty candidates. Josef Marx, Erwin Bodky and Alfred Einstein were guest faculty for the Summer Music Institute and Karl With, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Robert Motherwell, Mary Callery, and Fritz Goro were faculty for the Summer Art Institute. Fritz Hansgirg, who taught physics, was asked to give a lecture after the atomic bomb was dropped.