Reflecting on her life as a designer, she chose
motifs for the prints based on her work from
particular years: two from the 1920s, when Albers was at the Bauhaus and met her life - long partner and later husband Josef; two from the 1940s, when the couple taught at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina after having fled Nazi Germany; three from the late 1950s to the early «70s, after they resettled in Orange, Connecticut and Josef served as Yale University's Chair of the Department of
Design; and two from the early 1980s, after Josef's death.