Christian Mengelt

Christian Mengelt (* 1938 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss graphic artist , type designer and teacher.

Life

Christian Mengelt did an apprenticeship from 1954 to 1959 and worked as a sign painter in St. Gallen and Zurich . He then completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer at the Basel School of Design . Mengelt has been working as a freelance graphic and font designer since 1964. He worked with design and advertising agencies such as GGK Basel and Mendell & Oberer Munich, was a partner in the Type Design Team'77 and a member of ATypI . From 1972 to 2001 he taught at the Basel School of Design in the field of graphics, drawing and font design . From 1986 he headed the graphics class; In 1990 he became head of department. He also taught as a visiting professor at various design schools in Europe, the USA and Mexico.

Mengelt has been working as a freelance artist since 2001. He showed his works in the fields of printmaking and abstract painting at studio and work exhibitions, especially in the Basel and Lucerne region. He has lived and worked in Blauen , Baselland , since 1987 .

Awards

Swiss Grand Prix Design 2015 from the Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland

Work (selection)

Font design projects that were developed and carried out in team work by Christian Mengelt as the responsible designer:

• In collaboration with Karl Gerstner and Günter Gerhard Lange:
  • 1967, Gerstner program, H. Berthold AG type foundry.
• In collaboration with André Gürtler:
  • 1972, Univers Compugraphic, Compugraphic Inc., USA;
  • 1974, Cyrillic Gothic, Compugraphic Inc., USA.
• In the '77 team (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind):
  • 1976, Media, Bobst Graphic Lausanne / Autologic USA;
  • 1977, Avant Garde Gothic Oblique, International Typeface Corporation, USA;
  • 1978, Signa, Bobst Graphic Lausanne / Autologic USA;
  • 1980, Haas Unica, Haas'sche type foundry / Linotype / Autologic.
• Christian Mengelt Design:
  • 2010, Sinova, sans serif linear antiqua, editor Linotype ;
  • 2011, Basel Antiqua, Renaissance Antiqua.

literature

• Christian Mengelt: Visual Aspects of Type. In: Roger D. Hersch (Ed.): Visual and Technical Aspects of Type. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-44026-2 , pp. 34-46.
• Christian Mengelt: Abstract Painting 2003/06. Chamaeleon, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-9523175-0-0 .
• Christian Mengelt: Basel Antiqua - A historical print in a new form , Chamaeleon Verlag, Basel, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523175-9-4 .

Web links

• Christian Mengelt / catalog, biography
• Mengelt on the list of the Klingspormuseum (PDF; 137 kB)
• Christian Mengelt, Designer, Linotype [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.linotype.com/de/506/christianmengelt.html?lang=de
2. ↑ http://www.swisstypedesign.ch/schriftfamilie/911/