Wolfgang Weingart
Wolfgang Weingart is a very know graphic designer and he is know internationally. He is credited as the Father of a New Wave or Swiss punk typographic. Wolfgang was born on 1941 in southern Germany. He began studying applied graphic art at the Merz Academy. At that time Wolfgang learned alot of skills, some of those skills are woodblock printing, linocut and typesetting. He later met Karl August Hanke who was a consulting designer at Ruwe Printing; who then later became his mentor and suggested studying at Switzerland. From 1968 till 2005, Weingart was teaching Typography at an international institution for graphic design, He lectured for more than 40 years around the world. As an instructor, his philosophy was never to force any style upon a student. He also claims that he never intended to create a style, but that happened when students misunderstood the Weingart style.
At early stage in his professional development, Weingart’s inborn
understanding of the limitations of vertical arrangement in lead typesetting,
coupled with the severe technical and visual discipline of his training and his
naturally stubborn nature, drove him unstoppably to pursue a more experimental
approach. He raised the type up from the floor and tied it up to form a disc,
by printing the faces and the bottoms of the bodies of the metal type, he accomplished
the illusion of complexity. The discs became spheres.
Later in a bold move, Hofmann invited the 27-year-old Weingart, who was then unknown, to conduct the typography class, as designers from all over the world assembled to the program.
Weingart insistently wanted new ways of creating images, adopting the halftone screens and benday films used in photo mechanical processes as his new tools beginning in the mid-1970s. He used the repro camera to stretch, blur and cut type to engage continuous-tone images and letters together. Through his experimentation, Weingart was inventing his own visual language. He chooses to be involved in the entire process, from the concept to preparation of the film montage for the printer....When looking through the copy camera or while developing film, new ideas and possibilities become marked, even mistakes cause fascinating possibilities. His typographic vision symbolizes a similar strength and richness.
Bibliography:
1. http://www.aiga.org/medalist-wolfgang-weingart/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Weingart
3. http://vectorswirls.com/famous-graphic-designers/
4. Graphic Design Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications and History of Graphic Design. Author: Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Pit. 978-1-59253-441-8
Wolfgang Weingart is a very know graphic designer and he is know internationally. He is credited as the Father of a New Wave or Swiss punk typographic. Wolfgang was born on 1941 in southern Germany. He began studying applied graphic art at the Merz Academy. At that time Wolfgang learned alot of skills, some of those skills are woodblock printing, linocut and typesetting. He later met Karl August Hanke who was a consulting designer at Ruwe Printing; who then later became his mentor and suggested studying at Switzerland. From 1968 till 2005, Weingart was teaching Typography at an international institution for graphic design, He lectured for more than 40 years around the world. As an instructor, his philosophy was never to force any style upon a student. He also claims that he never intended to create a style, but that happened when students misunderstood the Weingart style.
Later in a bold move, Hofmann invited the 27-year-old Weingart, who was then unknown, to conduct the typography class, as designers from all over the world assembled to the program.
Weingart insistently wanted new ways of creating images, adopting the halftone screens and benday films used in photo mechanical processes as his new tools beginning in the mid-1970s. He used the repro camera to stretch, blur and cut type to engage continuous-tone images and letters together. Through his experimentation, Weingart was inventing his own visual language. He chooses to be involved in the entire process, from the concept to preparation of the film montage for the printer....When looking through the copy camera or while developing film, new ideas and possibilities become marked, even mistakes cause fascinating possibilities. His typographic vision symbolizes a similar strength and richness.
Bibliography:
1. http://www.aiga.org/medalist-wolfgang-weingart/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Weingart
3. http://vectorswirls.com/famous-graphic-designers/
4. Graphic Design Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications and History of Graphic Design. Author: Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Pit. 978-1-59253-441-8
