Based on Kurt Shwitters “Thesis on Typography�, Julien Vallee has created this meld of stop-motion and motion-graphic typography all with influences pouring in from the Dada movement. Vallee states that the underlying idea is that the over-use of graphical elements in a typographical piece may cause the content to become unreadable.
Mark Blamire from Blanka just released a new range of tee-shirt dedicated this time for the Helvetica 50th Anniversary. Each tee-shirt size is determinated by the font size and comes with free pin badges. Lovely !
My Way To Typography, by Wolfgang Weingart published by Lars MĂĽller in 2005 is one of the master piece in typography. This is fundamental book for all who wants to star studing type (it’s never too late!) or just enjoy the beauty of the work.
About Wolfgang Weingart :
Born in 1941,Wolfgang WeingartCompleted his typesetting apprenticeship in hand composition in 1963. He has taught typography at the Basel School of Design since 1968 and, invited by Armin Hofmann, was an instructor during the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design Brissago from 1974 through 1996.
For over thirty years Weingart has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
He is represented in the permanent collections of museums and private galleries and has received design awards from the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs in Bern. Internationally exhibited, Weingart’s publications and posters have been reproduced in design reference journals, Massachusetts College of Art Boston, since May 2005: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.
He was a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale/AGI from 1978 to 1999, on the editoral board of ‘Typographische Monatsblätter’ from 1970 to 1988.
A self-taught designer who fosters imagination and insight, Weingart teaches his students to teach themselves. His experimental work in typography has influenced the course of design history in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Michael C. Place in association with Mark Blamire from Blanka just released the first 5 poster of the Scale Serie. Each print in the series is strictly limited to 50 unit. Advance pre-order available now. Printed gloss reflex blue and black on cyclus offset [Recycled stock]. Another great Build work.
Between 1968 and 1999, the ‘Basel School of Design‘ had conducted an Advanced Class of Graphic Design which was attended by students from all over the world. When the school was transformed into University Level, this Advanced Class was unfortunately closed.
The educational concept on which the Advanced Class of Graphic Design was built was the firm conviction that an intensive study of basic design principles and a broad horizon in form-related design processes were necessary in order to solve complex design problems. Preceisely because of this standpoint, the Advanced Class of Graphic Design was, for over thirty years and with students from more than thirty-five nations, very attractive for designers who had studied for example at a university level, in the United States, but still felt something very basic was missing in their education.
During the past few years, as in other European countries, Switzerland has transformed the art and design schools into a university level. At the same time, the ‘Basel School of Design’ was given the mandate of developing types of classes which would lay a basic design foundation for further study in all professional design areas. The one year basic design course, the ‘Vorkurs’, well-known in international design circles throughout the world, belongs to this programme.
Now more than ever, the interest on basic design-oriented studies, with its emphasis on direct manual and visual perception, is very high. With its ‘Third Summer Programme in Basel 2007′, the ‘Basel School of Design’ would like to reopen a dialogue with the Advanced Class of Graphic Design
which has been interrupted since the closing of the class and offer professionals in all design fields the
opportunity to take part in solid foundation programme in the area of basic design studies for their further
education.
Download the complete program and form here
Other interesting links :
http://basics.sfgbasel.ch/home.htm
http://www.weingartarchive.com/
Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matters.
