Learning objectives
- Promotion of spatial imagination and spatial-visual representation skills through complex shadow drawings of several projection planes
- Introduction to type design through an examination of the typological, topological and morphological meanings of characters
- Playful exploration of the themes of semantic typography and light/shadow projection in space
- Fundamentals of lighting design through the examination of additive and subtractive light mixtures as well as the projection of colored shadows
Contents
- Each team develops an object (plant) for a shadow projection, whereby the object creates the shadow that typographically expresses the concept (content) and essential characteristics (color, shape) of the plant.
- The word layer is made up of the letters of the plants used. The characteristics of the plants determine the search or development of the letters used.
- The object layer and the image layer lead us to a typographic shadow garden. From the shadow projections of the plants, concepts are formed whose shape expresses the essence of the plant. The typeface design develops from the relationship between form and content.
- The spatial layer follows from the light installation. The object shape serves as a shadow matrix for generating the typographic projection (contour projection, surface projection, interspace projection, positive/negative projection, additive/subtractive projection).
- The sound layer is formed from the background noise of the garden. The garden is built up from the different layers of space, which merge into a whole at the end.
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A cooperation project with the typeface/typography department of Prof. Andrea Tinnes
- Exhibition “Long Night of the Sciences” 2010 Halle
- Published in “Page” magazine 11/2010″
More information on the seminar in the publication “Grundlagen der kreativen Gestaltung”, Axel Buether, Seemann Verlag Leipzig (publication planned. Fall 2012
