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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.
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