Dirk Wachowiak

Germany

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Dirk Wachowiak is a graphic designer with a focus on typography and type design. Besides his design practise he holds a professorship in Typography and Corporate Design at Trier University of Applied Sciences Dirk studied in Germany and the US before he received his MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University School of Art in 2005. Together with Stefanie Schwarz he founded the Typographic Research Lab Open2Type in 2013 and since 2014 he is a member of the Art Director Club. His work has been published in magazines like Page, Novum, Form, Slanted and Creative Review and received international honour e.g. Certificate of Typographic Excellence (Type Directors Club New York). Tokyo Type Directors Club and the RedDot Award (Best of the Best). Dirk has lectured or held workshops at: Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (GER), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (GER), School of Design Pforzheim University (GER), Hochschule Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (GER), Hochschule für Kunst, Design und Populäre Musik Freiburg (GER), HFG Offenbach University of Art and Design (GER), Winchester School of Art (UK).

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Family Name Weissenhof Grotesk
Designer(s) Dirk Wachowiak, Stefanie Schwarz
Release Date November 5, 2015
Available Style Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Classification Sans
Supported Languages Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aranese, Aromanian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chuukese, Cofán, Cornish, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gikuyu, Greenlandic, Guaraní, Guarani , Gwich’in, Haitian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Javanese, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Kituba , Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maninka, Manx, Māori, Marshallese, Náhuatl, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern), Ndebele (Southern), Norfuk , Norn, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Otomi, Palauan, Papiamento, Pedi , Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romaji, Romani, Romanian, Sámi (Inari), Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Samoan, Sango, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seychelles Creole, Shona, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali (Latin), Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Tuvalu , Twi, Ulithian, Umbundu , Veps, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu
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