Wolfgang Weingart

Wolfgang Weingart was a graphic designer and typography who was internationally known. Born in 1941 in south Germany his work catagorised into Swiss Typography which then developed on his creation of 'New Wave' and 'Swiss Punk' design.

His work consisted his experimental typography which to him was a form of visual enjoyment. meaning his work was quite playful while sticking to rules of swiss typography and graphic design.
He enjoyed experimenting and making patterns in much of his work, shown in one of his typography books - 'My Way to Typography' shown below.

His typographic layouts became even more abstract later on in his career. During the 1980's he created many posters which has a lot of overlapping type. This would have been done using film montage.

 In 1968 he came a lecturer of his own postgraduate course which was inspired from his own work and also work of the Swiss 'International' Style' he taught his students to experiment with the limits of legibility and repetition.

He also later on new skills in photolithography which meant he could play photographically with type changing the size, focus and also being able to distort his type manually. While also being over to overlap and mask film to add depth to his image making.






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http://typography-daily.com/blog/2011/03/02/6-must-have-books-about-typography/