Born in 1941, Wolfgang Weingart is an independent graphic designer and a very influential teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel. Weingart started with a three-year apprenticeship with a hand-t…

Did Wolfgang Weingart revolutionise typography?Wolfgang Weingart, a Swiss typographer, who was appointed an instructor of typography at the Basel School of Design in 1963 (Heller, 2005). His work stood out to me as it did not conform to traditional typography and the established rules, which at the time was clean and well read. I personally found Weingart's work ugly and unattractive, but also captivating. I'm going to be diving deeper into what his work achieved and try to understand his…

Wolfgang Weingart. Didacta Eurodidac. 1980-81. Lithograph. 50 3/4 x 35 1/2" (128.9 x 90.2 cm). Christopher H. Browne Purchase Fund. 207.2006. © 2025 Wolfgang Weingart. Architecture & Design

Project on promoting an exhibition of a famous graphic designer, Woldgang Weingart through bus stop posters and brochures.

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Swiss punk poster in tribute to Wolfgang Weingart.

Wolfgang Weingart Wolfgang Weingart, Experiment book, double page, 1962, woodblock printing. Museum of Design Zurich, graphic collection; Photo: U. Romito

Poster Tribute to Weingart on Behance A poster tribute to graphic designer and typographer Wolfgang Weingart, also known as the father of New Wave/Swiss Punk Typography.

This weeks discussion I had to talk about Wolfgang Weingart and New Wave Design. New Wave Design is a style of typography which commonly break the rules of typography by usually using different typ…