(Sub)Version: Poster
Between the discreet need for renewal and cross-border radical changes, the question arises for designers: How do we deal with extreme content? As form creators of messages using text, we are part of their impact and bear responsibility. How can we make content loud or quiet through the way it is conveyed? Give it space or take it away — support it or hold it back — distort, turn it upside down, or reveal it?
Where is the space for such clearly designed statements? Commercialized public spaces and interest-filtered media appear narrow. Scrolling takes the gaze away from the poster — the algorithm suppresses the unexpected.
In the course, we utilize a current collection of statements with social relevance, adapting them to our own standards and experimenting with the malleability of viewpoints through design with typography. We develop expressive poster series and simultaneously search for alternative, maximally visible forms for urgent demands that are important to us.
We particularly focus on learning a confident handling of InDesign and typesetting to enable impulsive, spontaneous, and current designs.
Requirements:
Constant participation.
Joy in experimenting with text.
Much perseverance for diverse design variants.
Offers:
Constant technical input.
Fixed pre-selection of fonts.
Timely results.
Course offered on behalf of Prof. Andrea Rauschenbusch.