Nr. 5 Typographie als Malerei Poster

Known for his experimental use of typography to create engaging graphic layouts, Wolfgang Weingart has influenced a generation of designers. This collaboration with Chicago-based Philip Burton, one of Weingart’s students, is based on documentation from Weingart’s class at the Basel School of Design and is meant to represent a train journey across the Alps. Weingart’s interest in employing letterforms as both a textual and visual form of communication is evident in the poster’s typographic compositions, such as the staggered city names, which are indicative of the formal nature of mountains, rain, and the sun.