Swiss Punk Typography
スイス・パンク・タイポグラフィ / 1970s–1980s / Style / Experimental Typography
In Basel, the home of Swiss style, Weingart dismantled the grid from within: exploding letterspacing, stepped settings, layered film exposures — rebellion inside discipline that begot New Wave typography.
The grid dismantled / Exploding letterspacing / Stepped compositions / Layered-film textures
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Wolfgang Weingart / the inheritance through April Greiman / the Basel School of Design