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In this project, the student produced a visual record in pictures only, no text of their life ,“How do I spend my money” or “My Generation, my hereitage”.

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Hello and welcome to out presentation. We are Heiner Jacobs' class Communicating with Signs. For the past two weeks we have created sign and symbols, worked with illustrations and photographs in order to communicate a story without using any text. We were given the option to choose one of two topics: My Generation or How I Spend My Money in One Week. There is no need for further explanation because the rest of the presentation is for you to interpret our work. Blue sicky dots will be passed around. If anything seems unclear in the work please do not hesitate to ask the author of the work, but also place the sticky on the work itself. Thank you and Enjoy!

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Ariana Cydney Shadlyn (Canada)

University of Alberta Exchange Student

n Fio i Xu a l o About her work Ru k i ern a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” W ren or “Spending Money”)? a M h With my design I wanted to communicate the changes of feminine c ri h t materialistic items throughout the generations (ie. hair, music players, ü sR and telephone) and how one items exists due to the progression of the e In h item previous. ut G b) How many dots did you receive? ritz o received two on Version1 and three dots on Version2 M c c) What Iwas a s the frequent question that you received the day of the u D presentation? lina o r Why did you choose on to show feminine items? nn Ca a m eck B n rg rle a be M n itte w n a eo hn m ö i S nH e l He e l l o lke Nic sketchs page 50 >> ö V n ia ast b Se ven a r er Sch g r a r e nb Lau e r r Dü s i ilk B a j Ali zem u a Fr k i r ov Pat n u er h C el Pav

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” or “Spending Money”)? h c I set myself the task of communicating “How I spend my money duri thr ü ing a week” and rather than focusing in on the statical side of this, with sR e quantities, I chose to focus on how to represent my week typically, In h t and in doing so hopefully show my presonality. What I consume on a Gu z week to week basic varies greatly, so by adding an interactive chance t ri o element to my outcome I hoped to portray this. Another element that M c a s I chose to communicate is how spending money on different things Du a effects my emotions. In essence, the aim of the game is to make it lin o r through a week without running out of money, while gaining as much n n Ca a happiness as possible. ckm b) How many dots did you receive? e nB e l rg I received 1 blue dots. r bec) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the Ma n itte presentation? w n a On the day of the presentation, I was happy to find that a people were eo hn m ö i S interacting with my ‘game’ and began to experience it as I had denH e l e signed. Promoting discussion on how random consumption is. H

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” n or “Spending Money”)? a In l l I choose the subject ‘How I spend my money during the week’. All my cLe a symbol got understand right. The most diffucult symbol to find was the aM n jazzdance-symbol. It was difficult because the difference between Fio h ballet, jazzdance and aerobic is very small. ut G b) How many dots did you receive? ritz o just received 1 dots. M c c) What Iwas a s the frequent question that you received the day of the u D presentation? lina o r At presantation the students couldn’t understand, why I spent more nn Ca a money for my cell phone than on food.They miss the fact that I’m live ckm with my family so I don’t have to spent money for rent or food. Be

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” n or “Spending Money”)? M a l l I didin’t want anything more than communicate than how I spend my cLe a money during the week. aM n b) How many dots did you receive ? Fio h I just received 9 dots. ut G c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the ritz o M c presentation? a s No quenstions, people just asked me about my sheets. Du a I scanned some scribbles. in

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” Money”)? n or “Spending a In l l I wanted nothing in addition than “How I spend my money” e L c a Topic testify. I have tried in the design of symbols, to find visually “apaM pealing” solution, not on an absolute Minimum reduced but still good n k Fio i and easy, even in small sizes readable / understandable. rn e W b) How many blue dots did you receive? ren I just received 4, all at the bottom of the series / the strip with the duraa M c a ble expenditure. us D c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the lina o r n npresentation? Ca a “What do the icons at the bottom row?” m

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” or “Spending Money”)? I wanted to comunicate “My Generation and my ancestors generation“ by compare some rempresentative objects. b) How many blue dots did you receive? I received no dots. c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the presentation? I also receive no question.

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” nor “Spending Money”)? a In l l With my three pictures I mainly wanted to show the change in the resicLe a dential design made within the 3 generations. Additionally, I have my aM n own personal experience of course design in the living spaces of my k Fio i grandparents and parents, as well as my own generation, ie my own n er W body or my incorporate friends. n e r In each picture there is also a small conflict. Ma In the grandparent generation picture you can see in the background th u a picture of a woman from the 50s, which is in contrast to the emanciG z t i pated woman in the foreground of the picture. r Mo On the parents’ generation remember only the picture LPs, locked c sa u behind glass in the wild days of the 80s, while the furniture is designed D a n the conservative style. i erg in rol b a My generation combines pieces of furniture from the past with modern n C te t i elements. The retro look, combined with modern technology and dazw n a zling colors are on display here. Ritual objects like the Ikea Billy bookeo hn m ö i case suggest the young age group. Nevertheless, a generationsgebunS nH e l denes residential design is hardly to determine. e H e lb) How many blue dots did you receive? ol lke I got 6 dots. Nic ö V n c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the stia a en presentation? Seb v In which history moment is the middle picture? a r

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a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” n or “Spending Money”)? a In l l I got the theme (Spending Money) and I wanted to communicate, simcLe a ply, graphically, displaying differently than usual (calendar form), that aM n was for me the real challenge. k b) How many blue dots did you receive? Fio i n r We About 26 n re a c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the M presentation? uth G What people do not understand most often was 1st the double occutz i r pation of the Days of the Week once (line number to the outer circles Mo c and dotted lines the circle into 7 equal parts) and the icon in the inteusa rior of the circle, where bills are marked with an arrow rotating drum D a n i l (here everyone thought that the aggregate cost the outer circle would n ro n a a be while I really wanted to represent only other running costs ...;))! C m

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About her work a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” or “Spending Money”)? That the money is gone fast. b) How many blue dots did you receive? 1 point c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the presentation? No questions

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Köln Internationa School of Design 1st Semester

n Fio i Xu a l o About her work Ru k i ern a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” W ren or “Spending Money”)? a M h I just wanted to show my spendings during the week without showing c ri h t the amount of money I am spending for the different things. No deeper ü sR sense ;) e In h b) How many blue dots did you receive? ut G 4 Sticky Dots, all of them on the Icon for things that I have to pay for ritz o such as rent or telephone M c c) What regularly a s was the frequent question that you received the day of the u D presentation? lina o r No questions n n Ca a m eck B n rg rle a be M n itte w n eo m i lyn S d a Sh a an l Ari lke ö nV a i ast b e sketchs page 50 >> S em z u er Fra g r k i e r nb Pat e r r Dü s i ilk B na a j h i l ö A nH e l He e l o ov n Nic u er h C el Pav

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zem Patrik Frauzem u a r F (Germany) rik n Pat ella Köln Internationa School of Design L c a M 1st Semester a n Fio i Xu a l o About his work Ru k i ern a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” W ren or “Spending Money”)? a M h My design represents an avarage week in my life. I want to show how c ri h t much ü sR money I spend during seven days – and what for. The amount of e In h money is ut G illustrated by the size of the respective icon. That means that I spend ritz o most money on rent (for my appartment) and fewest on clothing. M c a Monthly s u D costs like rent are divided by four to represent the weekly share. ina l o r blue dots did you receive? nnb) How many Ca a Three. m eck c) What was the frequent question that you received the day of the B n e presentation? l rg r be Ma Many fellow students didn’t understand how I can spend so much n te t i money on fast food – and still be so slim :) w n eo lyn Sim d a Sh a an l Ari lke ö nV a i ast b e sketchs page 50 >> S ven a r er Sch g r a r e nb Lau e r r Dü s i ilk B na a j h i l ö A nH e l He e l o ov n Nic u er h C el Pav

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Nicole Helen Höhna

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Köln Internationa School of Design 5th Semester

n Fio i Xu a l o About her work Ru k i ern a) What did you want to communicated with your design (beside “Generation” W ren or “Spending Money”)? a M h I wanted by outlines of people on the pedigree of the c ri h t different eras of fashion and hairstyles and display ü sR simultaneously convey that it is not just about the project e In h “my generation” but also “my heritage” acts. I have therefore ut G My broken family relationships and this fat by the ritz o Lines generalized. M c b) How many a s blue dots did you receive? u D I got14 blue dots. But I think people didn’t really know if the dots were lina o r or against understanding ... hihi n nc) What for Ca a was the frequent question that you received the day of the ckm presentation? e nB e I was asked whether the people understood my poster l rg r be Ma had, after I asked her to explain to me what they have seen n te t i and found that in fact they were always higher. w n eo lyn Sim d a Sh a an l Ari lke ö nV a i ast b e S ven a r er Sch g r a r e nb Lau e r r Dü s i ilk B a j Ali zem u a Fr k i r ov Pat n u er h C el Pav

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