Wolfgang Weingart

Wolfgang Weingart, born in 1941, in the Salem Valley, Germany, is known to be a typographer, graphic designer, and theacher. In 1947, after Weingart started school, he noticed the academics weren’t a part of his stregnths. It was at this time that Weingart took a great interest in making things with his hands. After exploring his potential with his hands, he learned “that intellect can be expressed and cultivated through handwork”. He later moved to Lisbon in 1954, at the age of 13 and began his constant exposure to art and taking serious artistic classes. At the age of 17, after experiencing many mediums, Weingart still wasn’t sure about what he wanted to do for a career but felt that, overall, he was going in the right direction. At this time, he was at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. His experience there led him to his enrollment at the Basel School of Design where he had gone to study typography. In later years, he experimented more with typography and began creating now-well-known projects such as “Round Compositions.”  These were actually done because of and accident. He had dropped a drawer full of heavy type and when they scattered across the floor, instead of repacking them, he put them into a round cardboard ring. He did this in a random order and facing upwards. This gave him two printable sides, the top and the bottom. The bottom wasn’t actually intended to print, but, it gave him the opportunity to experiment even more. 1941, in the Salem Valley, GermanyWolfgang Weingart, born in is known to be a typographer, graphic designer, and theacher. In 1947, after Weingart started school, he noticed the academics weren’t a part of his stregnths. It was at this time that Weingart took a great interest in making things with his hands. After exploring his potential with his hands, he learned “that intellect can be expressed and cultivated through handwork”. He later moved to Lisbon in 1954, at the age of 13 and began his constant exposure to art and taking serious artistic classes. At the age of 17, after experiencing many mediums, Weingart still wasn’t sure about what he wanted to do for a career but felt that, overall, he was going in the right direction. At this time, he was at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. His experience there led him to his enrollment at the Basel School of Design where he had gone to study typography. In later years, he experimented more with typography and began creating now-well-known projects such as “Round Compositions.”  These were actually done because of and accident. He had dropped a drawer full of heavy type and when they scattered across the floor, instead of repacking them, he put them into a round cardboard ring. He did this in a random order and facing upwards. This gave him two printable sides, the top and the bottom. The bottom wasn’t actually intended to print, but, it gave him the opportunity to experiment even more.