Walter Bohatsch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Bohatsch (Photo: Markus Roessle)

Walter Bohatsch (born August 8, 1949 ) is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer . He has internationalized Austrian graphic design and brought influences from Switzerland, Canada and the USA to Vienna.

Career

Walter Bohatsch took a course in advertising and sales at the University of World Trade in Vienna before going to Canada for five years. He worked for various design studios in Montreal, including Gottschalk & Ash Int. In 1978 Walter Bohatsch returned to Europe and completed the postgraduate course in typography, graphic and film design with Wolfgang Weingart , Armin Hoffmann and Peter von Arx at the Basel School of Design . In the early 1980s, he founded his own graphic design office in Vienna. In 1988, Walter Bohatsch completed courses in computer and graphic design at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University .

Walter Bohatsch is the initiator of the Typoji project and the creator of the Typoji . Typojis are special typographic characters (glyphs) for special terms. Their functional use is based on knowledge of the semantic meaning of the respective terminology.

He is a member of the world-renowned AGI (Alliance Graphique International).

Texts by Bohatsch and works by his office have been published in numerous international specialist publications. Walter Bohatsch is a juror at national and international competitions as well as a speaker at international congresses and universities.

Teaching

From 1989 to 1991 Walter Bohatsch taught experimental and computer-aided typography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (master class Tino Erben). From 1997 to 1998 he held a teaching position for integral design at the Vorarlberg / InterMedia University of Applied Sciences .

Awards

  • 3 × State Prize “ Most Beautiful Book in Austria ” (1990, 2004, 2007) and eight nominations
  • Golden Venus 2002, Silver Venus 2011, Bronze Venus 2008, 2013, CCA
  • various nominations and awards at the Joseph Binder Award
  • Awards at the red dot award 1997
  • multiple awards ISTD International Typographic Awards (1991, 1993, 1996, 2009)
  • Participation in the Brno Biennale 2000, 2004, 2008

Publications

  • Continuously , Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7025-0556-1 .
  • Co-editor of the architecture magazine Bauart , 1989–1996
  • Typojis - Some new characters / A Few More Glyphs , Verlag Hermann Schmidt, ISBN 978-3-87439-849-7 .

literature

  • Anita Kern, Austrian graphic design in the 20th century , Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7025-0586-8
  • Anita Kern, Bernadette Reinhold, Patrick Werkner (eds.): Graphic design from Viennese modernism to today. From Kolo Moser to Stefan Sagmeister. From the collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-211-99145-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bohatsch and Partner: Bohatsch and Partner. In: www.bohatschundpartner.at. Retrieved December 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Winner. In: creativclub.at. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Winner. In: creativclub.at. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Winner. In: creativclub.at. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Three FontFonts Win At ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2009 | The FontFeed. In: fontfeed.com. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Bohatsch Visual Communication: Bohatsch Visual Communication · Continuously. In: continuously.bohatsch.at. Retrieved December 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Typojis . In: Verlag Hermann Schmidt . ( typografie.de [accessed on May 10, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Typojis - Some New Characters / A Few More Glyphs. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bohatsch, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic designer and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1949