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Cross-year studio: alphabet as infrastructure
Prompts What does it mean when companies such as Google and Facebook renamed them Alphabet and Meta? Language implicates reality: the ideas we attach to things become things in the world. We use metaphors to describe things that elude our grasp, and fictions and metaphors allow an imaginary concept to be legitimated. Voss, G. (2024) Systems…
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Cross-year Studio: Language 3
Prompts Who or what exercises control or influence over the language(s) you speak or its associated alphabet(s)? The government and the education systems Pinyin romanization, system of romanization for the Chinese written language based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese. The gradual acceptance of Pinyin as the official transcription used in the People’s Republic of China signaled a commitment…
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Cross-year studio: Language 1
Is typography necessarily systematic? Modernity after Modernism After Swiss typography: Wolfgang Weingart he attached the image of letters by cutting or other means of visual distortion http://www.neugraphic.com/weingart/weingart-text3.html https://www.moma.org/artists/6289 Do-it-yourself graphics: Neville Brody https://www.dezeen.com/tag/Neville-Brody/ A Danish voice: Gerrit Noordzij https://www.typeroom.eu/in-memoriam-gerrit-noordzij-1931-2022 https://www.kabk.nl/en/programmes/master/type-and-media/programme-description Anarchist-craftsman theory of knowledge Usually serifs are considered in relationship with the terminals of the…