- Wolfgang Weingart
Wolfgang Weingart is a German graphic designer. Weingart is credited as "the father" ["Eye", No. 4, Vol. 1, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor, pp. 8–16.] and a forceful proponent of New Wave
typography . His work shares similar formal characteristics with such designers asApril Greiman andWilli Kunz .Life and work
Weingart was born in Constance, Germany 1941 and trained as a typesetter in
Basel , Switzerland. ["Eye", No. 4, Vol. 1, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor, pp. 8–16.] According to a 1991 interview in "Eye" magazine: "since 1968 he has been a tutor at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, Switzerland, where he concentrates on experimental typography. Since 1972, Weingart has lectured widely on his teaching methods in Europe, the US, Canada and Mexico. He is a contributor to the Journal "Typographische Monatsblätter", for which he designed a series of covers, and is founder of the periodicals "Typographic Process" and "TM/Communication." ["Eye", No. 4, Vol. 1, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor, pp. 8–16.]According to Weingart, "I took 'Swiss Typography' as my starting point, but then I blew it apart, never forcing any style upon my students. I never intended to create a 'style'. It just happened that the students picked up — and misinterpreted — a so called 'Weingart style' and spread it around." ["Eye", No. 4, Vol. 1, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor, pp. 8–16.]
For a more complete online essay on Weingart, see Keith Tam's [http://keithtam.net/writings/ww/ww.html "Wolfgang Weingart’s Typographic Landscape"] .
Book
* "Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography" by Wolfgang Weingart, K. Wolff and C. Schelbert, 2000, Lars Müller Publishers. (ISBN 978-3907044865)
External links
* Weingart's graphics in the permanent collection of
MoMA : [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=3&template_id=1&sort_order=1] [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1] [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=5&template_id=1&sort_order=1] [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=6&template_id=1&sort_order=1] [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=7&template_id=1&sort_order=1] [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=8&template_id=1&sort_order=1]
* [http://keithtam.net/writings/ww/ww.html "Wolfgang Weingart’s Typographic Landscape"] , by Keith Tam.References
* "Eye", No. 4, Vol. 1, 1994, edited by Rick Poynor, pp. 8–16.
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