[a letter from Wolfgang Weingart] sawbucks Fred Smeijers

Fred Smeijers

It’d be easier to explain if you were here and we could look at this together

Graphis gave it a Gold Medal in its 2017 Poster Annual

We don’t know why

When we were in school we were told about an art professor who’d taken a piece of paper and cut out a 1-inch square

[a letter from Wolfgang Weingart] sawbucks Fred SmeijersYou know how when presidents sign a piece of legislation they write each letter of their name with a different pen so that more people can get the pen that was actually used for the signature? Wolfgang Weingart sorta took the same approach when writing letters to friend. In this 1986 letter to his pal Tom Strong he used three markers and a pen to let Tom know that hed be in New Haven and would stop by the office. A sweet, pre digital document from one