Award Winner 2008
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Award Winner 2008

"Von Luftlinien, Flammenbögen und Speedloops" by Florian Hardwig from Braunschweig is a three-part project made up of a notebook, a poster and three concertina volumes. The different parts are encased in a two-part packaging box. This focus of this publication is on handwriting and to what extent it, as an individual expression of personality, is overgrown by norms that are already set at school. International teaching and learning models are presented. The concertinas, in which the examples of utmost subtlety of shape and colour facilitate the apparent comparison between 12 international, Latin school scripts, form the core of the work. In one volume, school scripts written on slates in chalk printed in different colours using the silk screen procedure show the lower case letters, in another the upper case and another volume defines the script models of several countries according to special characteristics. The parallel use of silk screen printing, laser printing and chalk results in an interlacing of techniques, which can be found somewhere between copying and a unique character and therefore also conveys the thoughts of individuality and standardisation of scripts in the chosen form of reproduction. The jury was unanimous in their appreciation for the unpretentious, precise and aesthetically evident form, combined with the designerπs confident authorship.