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Wolfgang Weingart - Coggle Diagram
Wolfgang Weingart
quotes
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?
The simpler the assignment, the more difficult the solution.
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
Biography
Weingart was born in 1941 in Constance at the northern foot of the Alps in southern Germany. He spent most part of his childhood in Germany .
Studied 2 years in Mez Academy where he developed linocut, woodblock printing and typesetting
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works
teaching
teaching at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, and who, through the work of his students, created a more experimental and expressive approach to typography that was influential around the world
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Weingart: Typography –– My Way to Typography,
2000.
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interview
I took 'Swiss Typography' as my starting point, but then I blew it apart, never forcing any style upon my students. I never intended to create a 'style'. It just happened that the students picked up—and misinterpreted—a so-called 'Weingart style' and spread it around."
“I was motivated to provoke this stodgy profession and to stretch the typeshop’s capabilities to the breaking point,” Weingart stated in the retrospective Weingart: Typography—My Way to Typography, published by Lars Müller in 2000.