Yellow
Typeface Design | Design History | Basel School of Design | Workshop
What it is:
In the summer of 2022, I spent a week at the Basel School of Design, studying typography under a former collaborator of Wolfgang Weingart, Philipp Stamm. The workshop focused on the foundations of type design: form, structure, and variation. Each participant chose a single word (a color) to develop a typeface design for. I chose yellow. I spent the week sketching, digitizing, and refining every letterform, exploring variations in weight and proportion with expert feedback.
What’s inside:
Sketches & Process
Letterform development with notes and feedback from Prof. Stamm.
Final Wordmark
The word yellow, designed with a whole lot of nit-picky precision.
Variations
Explorations in weight and style, from thin to rounded to 3D, all branching from the same set of letters.
A Rare Visit
Photos and memories from a trip into Weingart’s personal archive (plus his very charming cat).
The workshop materials provided:
The process:
The final version:
The variations:
A Visit to Weingart’s Home
Through a connection in the workshop, a small group of us were invited into the home of Wolfgang Weingart’s longtime partner. She welcomed us with warmth, shared stories of his life, and opened up his personal archive for us to explore. We spent the night going through drawers full of original prints, proofs, and process work, ooh-ing and ahh-ing along the way. At the end of the night, we were each sent home with one-of-a-kind pieces from his collection. The experience was surreal and completely unforgettable.
Also: he had a cat. She’s in the photos too. Lovely little thing.
