Wolfgang Weingart

• born in Salemertal in southern Germany in 1941.

• Internationally known graphic design and typography.

History• Known as “enfant terrible” of modern Swiss typography.

• studied at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart on April in 1958.

• When he become 17 he set metal type for the first time.

• Karl-August Hanke, who was former student at basel school, and becomes his mentor.

Typography• Began a typesetting apprenticeship from 1960 to 1963.• he started to break the rules and unconventional

letters from the corset of right spaced, underlined, angle, reshaped them and reorganised.

• 1963 he was encouraged to study in Switzerland with his mentor.

• In 1968 Ruder and Hofmann recognized their extreme goal of creating an progressive graphic design program for postgraduate professionals, so Hofmann invited Wolfgang, but he offered to teach typography class.

• He has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America, Australia, New Zealand and Asia .

• from 1970 to 1988 he was editorial of Typographical.

• May 2005, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.

• In 2013 he earned AIGA medal.• . In 2000 his great notably book entitled My Way

Of Typography was published.

His work mirrored an inner reality:

• Uninhibited• Playful• Complex• Contradictory• Sometimes erratic

The 20th century poster

• In 1984.• it’s one of Museum of

Design.

kunstgewerbemuseum

• In 1981• it’s one of Museum of

Design.

• He done it in 1982

1978

My way to Typography

• Lars Muller Publishers, 2014.

• including 450 type illustrations.

• Include discovery, the 40s, 50s and 60s, typography insight, Quest Swiss, layering as collage, the Basel years since 1964, and more

The Swiss poster

• Poster for a book, Done it in 1984.

• Exhibition at the museum of Design Basel.

• The poster showing a montage of strong symbols of Switzerland as Matterhorn over Zermatt.

Kunsthalle Basel Kunstkredit

• 1976-1977.• Uses his trademark typeface

akzidenz Grotesk.• This poster is composed of

geometric forms, collage effect of text, objects, and photographic images of architecture.

Round Compositions

• in 1990.• he experimented with

type composed in circle.

The Letter M

• IN 1965.• forced to make poster-

sized letters by hand.• It become very sensitive

to their expression and forms.

• he use photography skills to create compositions that held visual relationships

Didacta Eurodidac

• In 1980.• film layering.

Xerox and MacPaint Collages

• in 1995.• He used software on the

Macintosh computer by 1990s to produce illustrations and patterns.

Wolfgang Weingart Quotes• “What's the use of being legible, when nothing

inspires you to take notice of it?”• “For me, typography is a triangular relationship

between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.”

• Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.

• The synthesis of my work was actually the story of my life in retrospect."