Wolfgang Weingart

Recent articles about Wolfgang Weingart

Stuck in neutral

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Review

The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…

Thirty years before the masthead

Issue 88, Summer 2014

Review

This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…

Back to basics in Basel [extract]

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Feature

Basel School of Design's First Summer Program was a life-changing experience

The designer as author

Issue 20, Spring 1996

Feature

Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?

Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart

Issue 4, Summer 1991

Feature

‘My work is like a quarry. People see a stone they like, appropriate it and work it until there’s nothing left.’ Eye talks to the father of New Wave typography.

Recent blog posts about Wolfgang Weingart

Digging out the roots

10 March 2025

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

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25 July 2019
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

Letterform Archive needs our help to move to a new home in San Francisco. Claire Mason describes her first encounter with the collection
Three years ago, in the summer of 2016, I took a sabbatical from Penguin Books…

Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven

27 October 2014
Critical path, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice
Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work…