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WILLI KUNZ
PHILIP B. MEGGS
Swiss-born Willi Kunz played a role
in introducing the new typography
developed at Basel into the
United States. After apprenticing
as a typesetter, Kunz completed
his postgraduate studies at the
Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich (School
of Arts and Crafts). Kunz moved to
New York in 1970 and worked there
as a graphic designer until 1973,
when he accepted an appointment to
teach typography at the Basel School
of Design as Wolfgang Weingart’s
sabbatical-leave replacement.
Inspired by the research of Weingart
and his students, and with the type
shop at his disposal, Kunz began a
series of typographic interpretations
Willi Kunz