BLATT 6
series 1 Dokumentation 1960 – 1970 /
Arbeiten von W. Weingart ICTA, Auflage: 60 Exemplare
Wolfgang Weingart
Wolfgang Weingart: BLATT 6. Basle: W. Weingart, Oktober 1971. Original edition [series 1 Dokumentation 1960 – 1970 / Arbeiten von W. Weingart ICTA, Auflage: 60 Exemplare]. Poster with trim dimensions 23 3/16 x 19 5/16 in. (58.9 x 49 cm) offset lithograph on white wove paper. Mild wear to both left and right edges, but a very good or better example of this poster printed in an edition of 60 copies.
23 3/16 x 19 5/16 in. (58.9 x 49 cm) offset lithograph on white wove paper with a colophon to the upper left that reads “Belträge zu Fragen der visuellen Gestaltung 19 CH 4001 Basle 1 Switzerland P. O. B. 34; © 1971 by W. Weingart. Basle Switzerland Printed in Switzerland.”
Copies in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich.
Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Countless designers have been inspired by his teaching at the Basle School of Design and by his lectures.
From the website for Design is History: “Weingart was most influential as a teacher and a design philosopher. He began teaching at the Basel School of Design, where he was appointed an instructor of typography by Armin Hofman in 1963. He also taught for the Yale University Summer Design Program in Brissago. Throughout his entire career he spent time traveling and lecturing throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia.
He taught a new approach to typography that influenced the development of New Wave, Deconstruction and much of graphic design in the 1990s. While he would contest that what he taught was also Swiss Typography, since it developed naturally out of Switzerland, the style of typography that came from his students led to a new generation of designers that approached most design in an entirely different manner than traditional Swiss typography.”