Jenny Holzer is a post modernism artist based in New York that work with words and type to project them onto public spaces. Her work tries to create a new way of communicating narratives to the audience making impactful projections with here words in large scale installation contrasting against the building work. Holzer work normally covers very sensitive topic in here texts like sex, violence and relgion. This create for a very powerful statements that could be considered very controversial in society revealing ideas people wouldn’t normally think about everyday. Looking at Holzer work you can tell a lot of effort has been put in to the layout and fonts of the words considering how to project it. Each building has been given a completely different tone with the text she project because great understanding of type and composition.

Wolfgang Weingart is a typographic designer and was also teacher at Schule für Gestaltung Basel. His work was highly experimental and moving towards a new direction in typography giving Armin Hofmann interest to let him teach. His typography is all done by hand with metal letters and textures in a hand press later manipulated in the dark rooms editing his work on film. Weingart was becoming board with Swiss typography because it was becoming clean, clear and functional but nothing more. He tried to create work that was engaging to the audience but not trying make the words legible. I think Weingart was a simple designer that made things that were interesting to him then, I think his mentality would help my own work.

Hans Haacke is known for his art installation that cover very critical social and political overtones. Haacke is probably known for being a conceptual artist working in loads of different medium in his life span with different ideas and style through his years. His work dosen’t seem to have a systematic solution but rather ideas that are born in a uncontrollable manner that become the art installations you see. I think Haackle objects provokes intellectual conversations and ideas to his audience.

Jenny Holzer –

Tate. 2017. Jenny Holzer born 1950 | Tate. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jenny-holzer-1307. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

Takashi Okamoto / BuzaMoto. 2017. Welcome — Jenny Holzer. [ONLINE] Available at: http://projects.jennyholzer.com. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

Jenny Holzer – Wikipedia. 2017. Jenny Holzer – Wikipedia. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

Wolfgang Weingart –

AIGA | the professional association for design. 2017. Wolfgang Weingart. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.aiga.org/medalist-wolfgang-weingart. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

YouTube. 2017. Wolfgang Weingart: 2013 AIGA Medalist – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=55&v=WA5CYRrd8qo. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

Hans Haacke –

TateShots: Hans Haacke | Tate. 2017. TateShots: Hans Haacke | Tate. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-hans-haacke. [Accessed 23 November 2017].

Hans Haacke – 6 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy. 2017. Hans Haacke – 6 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.artsy.net/artist/hans-haacke. [Accessed 23 November 2017].