Trailer Weingart Typography

Wolfgang Weingart is regarded as the enfant terrible of modern Swiss typography. At an early stage he broke with the established rules: He freed letters from the shackles of the design grid, spaced, underlined or reshaped them and reorganized typesetting. Later he mounted halftone films to form collages, anticipating the digital sampling of the postmodern New Wave. As a typography teacher at the Basel School of Design Weingart shaped several generations of designers from 1968 onwards. They came from t