Design Quarterly 130, 1985 [Wolfgang Weingart, Armin Hofmann]

Design Quarterly 130: Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann, edited by Mildred Friedman with Hofmann and Weingart as guest authors, No. 130, 1985. Walker Art Center and MIT, USA. 8.5 x 11, pp. 40 (20 per section plus covers). Cover designs by Weingart and Hofmann. Issue designed by Lorraine Ferguson. Printed in Switzerland.

This special issue is heavily illustrated in black and white with some color and represents two distinct expressions to the Basel design approach, each presented in opposite sides of the journal.

Wolfgang Weingart “My Typography Instruction at the Basle School of Design/Switzerland, 1968 to 1985” includes: Thoughts on Typography; Student Work from the Late-1960s to the Mid-1970s; The Discovery of Film Techniques; Return to Basic Typographic Research; Typographic Paintings; and Typographic Research into the Computer World.

Armin Hofmann “Thoughts on the Study and Making of Visual Signs. Basle School of Design/Yale School of Art, 1947 to 1985” includes: Basic Exercises in Formal Principles of Graphic Design; An Investigation of Mason Marks; Sign Studies; and Logo Design Studies.

“The Advanced Class for Graphic Design, an arm of the Basle School of Design, is a program on the graduate level. The two to four-year programs gives no examinations, no grades, and no degrees are granted. The school’s strengths are in the areas of design theory and method: drawing, film, color, letterform design and typography. In this issue, the works of Basle's graduate students are shown to illustrate the concepts of the schools teachers: Kurt Hauert, Andre Gurtler, Max Schmid, Peter von Arx, Max Mathys, Gregory Vines, Armin Hofmann, founder and director of the international post-gradaute program, and Wolfgang Weingart, who has, in a sense, reinvented typography as a discipline.” — Editor’s Notes

A good stapled journal with heavy, noticeable soiling to the front and back covers; the Hofmann side is considerably worse. Wear and handling along the edges. Condition noted and price adjusted. Highly recommended!