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====== == Wolfgang Weingart== ====== {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/weingart-wolfgang.jpg?175}}\\ {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **1941:** Birth {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **1958:** Enrolled at Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **1960:** Graduated from Merz Academy, and began a three-year apprenticeship at Ruwe Printing. {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **1964:** Encouraged by his apprenticeship mentor [[Karl-August Hanke]], Weingart joined the [[Basel School of Design]] in Switzerland. {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **1968:** Joined the Advanced Class of Graphic Design faculty at Basel. {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/all_chrnological_divider.jpg}}\\ **2001:** Weingart published his book //Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography//.\\ {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/typo_cover.gif?175}} ==== Sample Work ==== {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/Wolfgang_Weingart_UCLA.jpg?175}}\\ == 1998: University of California at Los Angeles catalog == {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/weinpg_468.jpg?175}}\\ == 1980-1981: Worldformat //18th Didacta/Eurodidac// poster for the Convention on Teaching Aids == {{http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/images/weinpg_484.jpg?175}}\\ == 1977: //Worldformat Kunstkredit Basel 1976-1977// poster for the City Organization in Support of the Arts == === Quote === //“When I began teaching in 1968, classical, so-called 'Swiss typography' was still commonly practiced by designers throughout Switzerland and at our school. Its conservative design dogma and strict limitations stifled my playful, inquisitive, experimental temperament and I reacted strongly against it. Yet at the same time I recognized too many good qualities in Swiss typography to renounce it altogether. Through my teaching I set out to use the positive qualities of Swiss typography as a base from which to pursue radically new typographic frontiers. // //I try to teach students to view typography from all angles: type must not always be set flush left/ragged right, nor in only two type sizes, nor in necessarily right-angle arrangements, nor printed in either black or red. Typography must not be dry, tightly ordered or rigid. Type may be set center axis, ragged left/ragged right, perhaps sometimes in chaos. But even then, typography should have a hidden structure and visual order.”// ===== Link ===== [[http://www.weingartarchive.com/|Archive-Weingart]]\\ [[http://basics.sfgbasel.ch/home.htm|Basics in Design and Typography]] ===== Related Links ===== [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Weingart|Biography]]\\ [[http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/wolfgang-weingart-making-the-young-generation-nuts|Wolfgang Weingart: Making the Young Generation Nuts]] by Steven Heller\\ [[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6289&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1|The MoMA Collection]]\\ [[http://www.keithtam.net/writings/ww/ww.html|Wolfgang Weingart’s Typographic Landscape]] by Keith Tam\\ [[http://www.itcfonts.com/Ulc/2542/BookRevRoadTaken.htm|The Road Taken]] by Paul Shaw ===== Books ===== [[http://www.amazon.com/Wolfgang-Weingart-My-Way-Typography/dp/390704486X/uc-20|Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography]]\\ [[http://www.amazon.com/typography-instruction-School-Switzerland-quarterly/dp/B00070NLOU/uc-20|My typography instruction at the Basle School of Design / Switzerland, 1968 to 1985]]\\ [[http://www.amazon.com/Weingart-Typography-Wege-zur-Typografie/dp/3816917879/uc-20|Weingart: Typography - Wege zur Typografie]]
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