WEINGART: TYPOGRAPHIE-LEHRE IN BASEL
Wolfgang Weingart et al.
Wolfgang Weingart et al.: WEINGART: TYPOGRAPHIE-LEHRE IN BASEL. München: Studio für Typografie und Reprosatz, 1987. First edition. Text in German. Glossy saddle stitched French folded wrappers. 32 pp. Color and black and white work examples. INSCRIBED by Weingart. Glossy wrappers lightly rubbed along spine edge, thus a nearly fine copy.
INITIALED in red ink to front panel and INSCRIBED by Weingart on title page.
5.25 x 8.25 exhibition catalog with 32 pages of short essays and design samples from Weingart and his students, held at the Studio für Typografie und Reprosatz in Muich from May 11 to June 2, 1987. Short essays by Wolfgang Weingart, Armin Hofmann and Gregory Vines.
Features work by Wolfgang Weingart, Michael Sohn, Tricia Hennessey, Kathryn Bilotti-Stark, Stefan Sessler, Juan Luis Codero, Monika Hartmann, Manfred Wagenbrenner, Hamish Muir, Lorraine Ferguson, Lisa Pomeroy, and Kristie Williams produced from 1969 to 1987.
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.”