In week 09 we looked at Postmodernism which can be seen as a reaction against the ideas and values of modernism, as well as a description of the period that followed modernism's dominance in cultural theory and practice in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. The term is associated with scepticism, irony and philosophical critiques of the concepts of universal truths and objective reality.

Weingart successfully expressed the era Postmodernism style through his designs. The collages, layering, black and white, intense layout, and sharp, rigid design of his designs, and complementary type all worked together in his “Poster Kunst Kredit” design.

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Wolfgang Weingart turned letters into parts of bodies and parts of other letters, playing with text as both language and not-language. In a series of extraordinary experiments produced in the 1970s, Weingart's letterforms alternate between figure and ground, clustering and grouping to form larger structures.

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