WIE MAN GENIEßEN KANN WENN MAN WEIß DASS MAN GEHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V2Si6YxKR4

This is my last post. Thanks to all my readers!
I am in a melancholic mood and it is strange to leave tomorrow. But new challenges are waiting for me at home.

Unit 6 11/11: A Poster A Day

For the last project in Unit 6 we were asked to make 8 different posters. They all should be A2 portrait and focused on typography but with experimentation on production. During the project we got an email every morning with the new task. Below you can read the tasks and see some of the posters in bigger size.

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Poster 1: For a newspaper. Create a poster from a newspaper headline.

I found this page that shows how often the same prop newspaper reccurs in films. I searched for a scan of the prop and used the original headline and picture of the girl. I screenprinted my design on newsprint.

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Poster 2: For a poet. Create a poster from a line of a poem.

I chose a german poem by Goethe which is about the ginkgo tree. He writes about mirroring and duplicating which seemed to be an interesting concept for my design. After printing, I folded the poster to give the idea of a leaf.

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Poster 3: For public information. Create a poster from a piece of advice that someone once gave you.

I chose an advice I give myself sometimes: Note to Self: Relax. For the production I glued sticky notes together.

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Poster 4: For public information. Create a poster from a sentence explaning how to do something.
One of my favourtite books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is full of imagination and there are very nice ideas. I chose a sentence where it is explained how to fly. For the poster I created 3D letters in Illustrator and arranged them to look like they are flying in space.

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Poster 5: For a Book. Create a poster from the first line of a book.
Again The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I made like 10000 holes with a needle, so when light falls on the back of the poster, you can read the sentence on the front. It should look like stars.

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Poster 6: To change the world. Create a poster from your own political slogan.

SAVE THE FUTURE! – Stop complaining and make the world like you want it. Don't be lazy.

I painted with acrylic on fabric.

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Poster 7: For someone you don't know. Create a poster from overheard conversation.

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Poster 8: For a word. Create a poster from a dictionary definition.
The longest word in English is the chemical name for titin. Here is a video of someone reading it (3.5 hours).

Tate Modern

The Tate Modern belongs to my favourite places in London! It is the biggest museum for modern art in the world. It is huge and they are building even more space for exhibitions. I was there many times but I still did not see everything. On top there is a lovely café with a great view on the Thames.

Here are some scans from my sketchbook. Perhaps you can recognise something.

Unit 6 10/11: Poetry II,3

After the second crit, we got the feeling that we want to communicate more with our matchbox. Only the quote on all the sheets was not enough for us. So we researched a bit more about burning of books and found the Black List. This was a list of books that were banned by the Nazis. It was published on 16 May 1933 by Dr. Wolfgang Herrmann.

Our final piece is a matchbox (opens on top and bottom) with the Black List inside.

Pictures from production:

London Eye

Again another very touristy thing to do. But it was amazing to see the city from above, after having lived here for five months.