Posted on 25/05/10 10:22 AM
Mette Agerbæk and Lise Agerbæk in TypoBerlin 2010 outfits on Berlin Hauptbahnhof
“Passion” was the theme of the
2010 TypoBerlin conference, in which MMD teachers Mette Agerbæk, Merete Østergaard and Lise Agerbæk just participated. The logo of the conference was thus a heart in a tattooish style, which could be bought on tee-shirts, seen in presentation titles and put on your body as a disposable tattoo. The conference was a boost of inspiration.
Candy Chang, a designer and urban planner working for among others Nokia, taught us to look at the street as a place that graphic design can interact with. Frank Schomburg from
Nextpractice.de taught us to look at ourselves not as digital natives, but as either digital residents or digital visitors. He based this on a massive questionnaire survey. The findings show that how you populate the internet has nothing to do with age, but a lot to do with how you use the internet. Lastly König Bansah and Julian Zimmerman in a presentation wittingly called “The King is Customer” showed how a graphic design for a Ghanaian king from Ludwigshafen should look in order to make the king look both very royal and very exotic. Apart from that we as designteachers were very happy to learn of the new webfonts format called
woff, which allows webdesigners to use a lot more fonts that the 3-4 installed on most computers.
Posted on 1/05/10 6:30 PM
“Big typography” literally means huge typography – the use of giant letters in webdesign. This is seen in more and more places on the net. Look at e.g. DesignMag or Smashing Magasin.
At MMD-Odense design teacher Mette Agerbæk has introduced “task force typography”.
Students work intensely with different fonts – among other things by drawing them by hand. Mette calls this “typography croquis”. The idea is to develop a close relationship with different fonts. We want students to leave MMD-Odense with a design-style-toolbox, so they may offer clients many design options. Big Typography is just the latest of the design styles, we introduce students to.
The illustration shows Big Typography used in a web design.
