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Wolfgang Lederer was a book designer, illustrator, and professor emeritus at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Born in 1912 in Mannheim Germany, he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in San Francisco. In 1941, Lederer became the art director of Wines and Vines and also designed wine bottle labels for the Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, and Paul Masson Wineries. In 1950, he was named chairman of the California College of Arts and Crafts's Design Department, where he served until in retirement in 1980. In this interview, he discusses his studies at Paris and Prague, book publishers, the arts and crafts movement, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and his free-lance design work for the California wine industry.

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