Wolfgang Weingart

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Wolfgang Weingart Master of Typography

In his career Wolfgang became a very successful designer that helped change the area of Design by influencing others to break the mould and to experiment with their work, he continues to influence other designers until this day.

Weingart is well-known for his experimental and expressive work that broke the mould of classical Swiss typography.

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Wolfgang started with creating his own work and explored the world of design, which lead to the accidental creation of a new style. He quickly became a well-known international graphic designer, typographer and teacher and was regarded as the rebel of modern Swiss typography. He was crowned the father of the ‘New Wave’ typography in the early 1970s which is also called ‘Swiss Punk’.

Weingart was said to believe that the development of the Swiss Typography was becoming somewhat boring and sterile, his goal was to breathe new life into the new typography. He believed that the only way to break the typographic rules was to know them.

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was born in 1941 in southern Germany. He attended the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart from 1958 to 1960, where he familiarised himself with typesetting and the process of making linocuts and woodcuts. After this he trained as a typesetter and discovered Swiss typography.


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“My vision, fundamentally compatible with our school’s philosophy was to breathe new life into the teaching of typography by re-examining the assumed principles of its current practice. The only way to break the rules was to know them.”

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The simpler the assignment, the more difficult the solution,� writes Wolfgang Weingart in his book, Typography.

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