Projects: Typographic Research at the School of Design Basle, Switzerland [Wolfgang Weingart]

We have a rule about the lectures at Katherine Small Gallery: Designers are not allowed to talk about their own work.* We’re more interested in what designers are looking at, rather than what they are doing. But thank goodness designers sometimes write about their own work, because it means we can just copy it for these descriptions. Like, here’s what Wolfgang Weingart had to say about this one on page 416 of My Way to Typography:

The book Projekte was originally planned as a continuing series to publish the work of exceptional students. Financial support for the undertaking waned, however, and the publisher Arthur Niggli printed and distributed the first and only volume in a small edition of four hundred copies.** Projekte presented the research of two students both of whom combined traditional elements of metal typesetting with photographic techniques, experimenting with type and image on layers of transparent films.

A very fine copy of this exceptional and rare book. An adventurous beauty.

*We’ve twice allowed that rule to be broken.
**The jacket says there were only 380 copies.