This Wednesday, 21 May, 6pm @Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich.

As a typography teacher at the Basel School of Design Wolfgang Weingart shaped several generations of designers, coming from throughout the world, from 1968 onwards. On the occasion of his exhibition Weingart Typography, which juxtaposes his own work with works produced through his teaching activity, the Museum für Gestaltung organises a panel discussion on the topic Typography in Zurich and Basel: the Conflict in the 1970s and 1980s.

Guests:
Urs Fanger, Professor and Head of Design ZHdK em.
Victor Malsy, Professor and Head of Design ZHdK em.
Peter von Kornatzki, Visual Designer and Professor FH Darmstadt em.
Wolfgang Weingart
Moderation: 
Meret Ernst, Editor Hochparterre

As part of a research project on Wolfgang Weingart, the Museum of Design Zurich commissioned a survey about the careers of the Weingart Alumni. The list grew rapidly to circa 340 names, but of course is still not exhaustive (last update: March 2014). Three topics, the Alumni’s locations before and after Basel, an Alumni timetable and their activities after Basel were illustrated in amazing information graphics, presented as posters in the exhibition Weingart Typography.