Weingart Layout 2.4
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It was in the Basel School’s workshops that he began to reexamine<br />
the structures and methods that he had been taught. Through his unconventional<br />
experiments with wide letter spacing, mixing of type sizes and weight,<br />
photographic layering, etc., Wolfgang <strong>Weingart</strong> began to dissolve the authority<br />
of the International Style and create a new visual language all his own.<br />
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By 1965, <strong>Weingart</strong>’s irreverence for Swiss Typography had begun<br />
to jeopardize his relationship to the Basel school 4 . In order to not be<br />
expelled, he agreed to commit himself to a yearlong independent study<br />
at Emil Ruder’s request. The resulting studies of the letter “M” would become<br />
a hallmark of his early work, exemplary of many of the qualities that<br />
would endure throughout his career and make his body of work so influential.<br />
He described his process as “similar to working on a puzzle”<br />
- cutting, pasting, rearranging the letter M in as many different ways as<br />
he could think of in search of visual relationships within the letterform.
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