Words by Susan Merritt
Published onDecember 18th, 2015
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Wolfgang Weingart, Q, design alternatives for the cover of the magazine Design Quarterly, 1995, Xerography.
“Xerox and MacPaint Collages” Weingart used the photocopier beginning in the 1970s and MacPaint software on the Macintosh computer by the 1990s “to produce patterns and illustrations, which he then combined with other techniques” to create collages. (Weingart Typographie)
Museum of Design Zurich, Graphics Collection, © Zurich University of the Arts.
