After receiving feedback on initial mock ups I was inspired to look into Wolfgang Weingart's work to consider approaches to layout and possible manipulations of type within my own publication. Examples of his work can be seen below.
- Wolfgang Weingart revolutionised modern Swiss typography and in doing so wrote international design history.
- Wolfgang Weingart is regarded as the “enfant terrible” of modern Swiss typography. As early asthe mid-1960s he began to break the established rules.
- He liberated letters from the corset of theright angle, spaced, underlined or reshaped them and reorganised typesetting. In the 1970s he began to translate halftone films into collages, in this way anticipating the digital sampling of the post-modern “New Wave”.
- As a typography teacher at Schule für Gestaltung Basel Weingartshaped several generations of designers from 1968 onwards. They came from throughout the world and helped him achieve international reputation.
- Today both Weingart’s experimental design approachand his call for the combination of analogous and digital techniques are once again highly topical.
- His life work is being shown for the first time in Switzerland and juxtaposed with works by his students.
-Wolfgang Weingart, who was born in 1941 in Salemertal in southern Germany, attended the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart from 1958 to 1960, where he familiarised himself with typesetting and the process of making linocuts and woodcuts.
- After this he trained as a typesetter and discovered Swiss typography. From 1964 he continued his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel under Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann. From 1968 to 1999 he taught typography in the Advanced Class for Graphics there and, until 2004, at HGK Basel.
- Weingart also held summer courses in Brissago (Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design) and from 1972 onwards gave lectures throughout the world, frequently in the USA where most of his students came from.
- Weingart was a member of the AGI from 1978 to 1999 and in 2000 he published a comprehensive autobiography, which is to be reissued by Lars Müller Publishers. Weingart has received several awards for his lifework: in 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts by Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, in 2013 the AIGA Medal.
No comments:
Post a Comment