Weingart's work is categorized as Swiss typography and he is credited as "the father" of New Wave.
Weingart then completed a three-year typesetting apprenticeship in hot metal hand composition at Ruwe Printing. There he came
into contact with the company’s consulting designer, Karl-August Hanke, who became his mentor and encouraged him to study in Switzerland.
Weingart is a self taught Designer. He learned the craft of hot-metal typesetting as an apprentice. Since 1968 he has been an instructor of typography at the Basel Allegemeine Gewerbeschule. He also teaches typography annually at the
Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design, Brissago Switzerland. In 1972 he published the important article "How Can One Make Swiss Typography?" which explores the theoretical and practical results of typographic design and discusses
the educational application of these results, in Switzerland, from 1968 to 1972.
Weingart, 1941, trained typesetter. Since 1968 teacher for typography at the School of Design Basel - Switzerland. At the center-point of his work Stands the experimentation with typography. During the past fifteen years his typography
has been printed in technical journals and special supplements, and for many years he has been a co-worker with the 'Typographische Monatsblaetter', St. Gallen. He is founder of the special supplement in the same magazine, 'TMCommunication'.
“I was motivated to provoke this stodgy profession and to stretch the typeshop’s capabilities to the breaking point,” Weingart stated in the retrospective Weingart: Typography—My Way to Typography, published by Lars Müller in
2000.
