Type & Module File
Type & Print Hagen Friend
Contents A thing I’ve learned in my life so far
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Family Monogram
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Mark, Commemorate, Remember
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Complex Simplicity
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Everything about one thing
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A thing I’ve learned in my life so far Produce a typographic response inspired by Stefan Sagmeister’s book ‘Things I have learned in my life so far’:
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This is about exploring the nature and flexibility of type and experimenting with non-print formats. Your ‘thing’ learned should be a phrase or sentence specific to you. The outcome can be motion based, photographic, illustrative or interactive. It needs to be 3-dimentional and the style/material/typographic approach should (if possible) be appropriate to the phrase/sentence chosen.
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Sagmeister’s Work
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Ideas & development Knowing what I was going to do my 3D word on was simple, as I have a massive hobby in travelling, I love it, and I want to travel everywhere I can. I started of by going on google maps to see if I could get any inspiration and I straight away thought about the mapping pins that google uses.
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I started to put together some pins together that made the word ‘travelling’ and lined them up with cotton thread.
I started making cut out mapping pins with card board so that I could set the word out ‘the world’ into the grass. For example I would have 6 cardboard cut outs for the letter ‘T’. I used the map of the world to make a grid and a rule for my self when I applied the masking tape to create the sentance ‘opens my mind’ I then later added black tape to make it stand out.
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Experimenting I played around with the board full of mapping pins that spells ‘travelling’ and I projected light onto the pins and it enlarged the letters on the white board.
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Final Outcome This is a perfect sentence to say something that I have learned in my life so far, only recently I’ve felt this since I went travelling across the mediterraenian. It’s something that I have become very passionate about. I feel like Sagmeister has inspired my work as I have 3 seperate images to bring a sentence together about something I have learned.
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Family Monogram You will create a monogram for your eldest male and eldest female relatives (one for each). Once will be selected for an embroidered application. This project is about looking at how personal information can inform the creation and use of typography to convey history, identity and preserve a legacy.
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Monograms can be personal but are also used by corporations, sports teams and fashion labels to distinguish themselves and reflect an identity, ideology or ‘brand’. The choice of letterfroms, combination, style, colour and composition are informed by the ‘personality’ of the individual or company and these traits have to be unearthed in order for the monogram to work well.
A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as reconizable symbols or logos. A series of uncombined initials is properly referred to as a cypher (e.g. a royal cypher) and is not a monogram.
A Monogram or Cipher is in all cases intended for ornament, whether used as a mark of ownership by private individuals, or for a company, or a trademark. For purposes of commerce it is of course important that the device should be distinct and easily read. The same might apply also to the design for a club or society mark. For private use, however, where the device is to enrich a piece of jewellery, plate, the binding of a book, a piece of furniture, or part of the decoration of a house, it should in the first place be a good design.
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Relation to me: Great Grandmother (Uroma) Nationality: German D.O.B: 21 – 04 – 1930 P.O.B: Karlsruhe – Germany I haven’t kept much contact with my German side of the family for a long time, but this is some snippets of what she liked and what some of her past was like. My Grandmother lives on a street in Karlsruhe that is called Ernststrasse. The word ernstsrasse translates in English to ‘serious street’.
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UROMA
Sylvia Mossinger
She loved jigsaw puzzles and over a long period of time she collected quite a few. Whenever she completed one, she would stick it to a base, frame it and hang it to a wall.
When she was born, since day one she had been part of the Hitler youth in the second world war. The Hitler Youth movement emphasized activism, physical training, NAZI ideology, especially nationalism and racial concepts, and absolute obedience to Hitler and the NAZI Party.
Both my Great Grandmother and my Mother holding me as an infant..
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The female version of the Nazis’ “Youth serves the leader” campaign
Inspiration & inlfuences in my design Most of my influences came from the fact that my Great Grandmother was part of the Hitler youth. I used the NAZI swastika as my main point of reference.
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I used the ISH ‘Christogram’ as a point of interest as well, because the aesthetics of the words are linking together like a puzzle. Also there is a big contradiction between Christianity and Nazism.
Development & concept designs I started of designing on squared paper so I could make a rule for my self by having guides, the swastika has a 5x5 grid.
For my final concept I decided to make a 16x16 grid to follow my rule, and to keep the element of the swastika in it. I have spaced out both of the letters so it doesnt look as compact but tangling the letters together to get the essence of puzzle pieces.
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Final Monogram I have used Adobe Illustrator to complete these designs, by using the pen tool, shape builder tool, and I have given myself a 16x16cm grid to make myself rules so that the design stays neat and aesthetically pleasing.
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Embroidery
We had to import the illustrator file into Wilcom Embroidery Studio and then stitched out using the embroidery machines in the Fashion Studio. I took a screen shot of the monogram to see what the screen interpretation of it looked like. I changed the colour on one of the letters to show contrast between the both of them, instead of having just black. The picture on the right is my final outcome of the embroided monogram.
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Relation to me: Great Grandfather (Uropa) Nationality: German D.O.B: 14 – 11 – 1929 P.O.B: Stuttgart – Germany Again my Great Grandfather was raised during the Hitler youth in the second world war, but his family liked to say they weren’t a part of it. At a young age, he became a prioner of war by the English, and was sent to Scotland so that he could help out as being a chef. Apparently he said that he got treated very well, and had more weight on him when he left, than when he got there.
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UROPA
Kurt Mossinger
There has always been a contradiction between the two of my Grandparents, one side of the family was raised in the Hitler youth, and one did not believe in it. But the marriage has always stayed strong.
My Great Grandfather having conversation smoking his usual Marlboro cigarettes with my Mother and Grandmother.
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Inspiration & inlfuences in my design Most of my influences came from a lot of different typefaces and font families. Black swirl, by Andrew Martin influenced me with my decisions. Blackletter and celtic lettering also helped me with my decision with how to design my monogram.
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Development & concept designs Using a Pilot Parallel pen, I put some ideas together from the inspiration of other designer’s typefaces. Illustrator was a crucial part in turning the letters into idividual vectors. But still keeping the element of it looking hand drawn.
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Final Monogram I have used Adobe Illustrator to complete this design, by using the pen tool only, and sticking to the line of the scan in. So that it has a clean line and so it still has a hand rendered look.
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Mark, Commemorate, Remember You will produce a screenprinted A3, 2 colour (spot colour) typographic poster to commemorate the First World War Centenary. Content for this project will be supplied to you at your Indesign workshop and design must be completed prior to attending your screenprinting workshop. You will have a limited amount of time to produce your final outcome, which will push you to make rapid but considered decisions about composition, hierarchy and colour use.
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Mark Commemorate Remember 2014 - 2018
- Take part in the global commemoration -
First World War Centenary
www.1914.org
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Complex Simplicity
You are required to create an infographic with personal information that helps merge typically unrelated content and form. The Wikipedia definition of information graphics goes as follows: ‘Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.’
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Information graphics are at the heart of the way we communicate, either through simple use of images and diagrams, the written word or unspoken communication. Through the use of representation, designers are able to communicate complex ideas within an understandable frame of reference of ‘mental categories’ that we all share. This project tasks you with producing an infographic of something that has a personal connection to you which uses infographic techniques to present the information.
Select a period of time from your life in which you were involved in a series of events. The time period and the events are up to you. You are tasked to explore how to tell the story on a single surface, and how personal information can be shaped by using a public graphic language. Both the period of time covered and the events that occurred within it should be evident in the design.
The focus here is on ensuring that the subject you choose and the content you gather is comprehensive to enable the clearest re-presentation of the information for the viewer.
Use type, graphic elements, photographs, illustrations – anything you wish, as log as the information is clearly communicated in a method suitable and appropriate to the content. You can incorporate 3D elements, motion graphics, tactile methods, etc.
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Meat
Starch
Fruit & Veg
Dairy
1. Beef – £4.00 2. Bacon – £2.99 3. Chicken – £2.94 4. Fish – £2.00 5. Sausages – £1.99 6. Eggs – £1.38
1. Potatoes – £2.00 2. Couscous – £0.60 3. Bread – £0.47 4. Flour – £0.45 5. Rice – £0.40 6. Pasta – £0.29
1. Peppers – £2.00 2. Apples – £1.75 3. Bananas – £1.00 4. Carrots – £0.80 5. Onions – £0.79 6. Oranges – £0.76
1. Cheese – £3.19 2. Ice Cream – £1.70 3. Cream – £1.10 4. Milk – £1.00 5. Butter – £0.98 6. Yogurt – £0.33
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Food Budget
Meat
Starch
Fruit & Veg Dairy
Fish
£2.00
Bacon Chicken
Sausages Potatoes
Eggs
Apples
Cous cous
Flour
Bread
Pasta
Rice
Yogurt
Oranges
Onions
Carrots
Bananas
Butter Milk Cream
£0.00
Peppers
Ice Cream
£1.00
Cheese
£3.00
Beef
£4.00
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Everything about one thing You will gather complete knowledge about one single thing and make that accessible for the public in the form of a book supported by a type specimen/ rationale.
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Choose one thing, object, word, term. The more specific, the more you can zoom in, go into details, the better. Observe it, analyze it, take it to pieces, deconstruct it. Include and mention every detail that, in your opinion, makes it complete. Look at it from perspectives you haven’t looked from before, discover it in different ways. Work very specifically, accurately and to the point. Have the reader in mind – so what will interest and engage an audience about a potentially ordinary object/subject? How can you make the ordinary extraordinary?
Transform those results into a final outcome that contains both text and image. Compile the material in an order (not necessarily alphabetical) that underlines your system of describing the thing. Develop a strategy/language for treating your material, how to visualize and clarify/explain to the user your way of looking at the thing. Consider the relationship between text and image, the composition, grid use, use of colour, typographic treatments and hierarchy of information. Find appropriate methods/ techniques/“treatments� to adapt to all of the imagery/text that provides a consistent look and feel to your final publication. Strive for excellence both with your typographic applications and production techniques.
The form of your final outcome (size, binding, stock etc.) should be appropriate to the content and intention of your work, be fully resolved and show attention to detail in all aspects of its content, design and production.
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In A Blue Funk
This is a book based on my mother’s diary of 2010, this was the year she passed away of cancer. In the book you will find my mother’s fight for survival through her dreaded cancer journey and what she went through, the therapy she needed, the surgery and the care. The book takes you through the stages of her journey.
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Hagen Friend
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