ESSAYS, BOOK DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
Thesis
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CHAPTERS: 01 Describes the structural development of the city / 02 Deals with the legibility of architecture / 03 Talks about the possibility to see the city as a kind of book / 04 A visual chapter about disappeared but still visible letters / 05 Describes the appliance and possibilities of inscriptions / 06 A visual chapter about matter and form / 07 A visual chapter about the beauty and appearance of patina and weathering / 08 The development of signs and letters on facades and the relationship between letter and facade / 09 A documentation about the observation of an ordinary place over a period of three months / 10 The story of some letters journey / 11 About the appearance of posters and the more or less illegal letters in public places / 12 A visual chapter about the vernacular in public places / 13 A visual chapter about the wall as a blackboard / 14 A visual chapter about seductional and repulsing words we meet in public space / 15 The development of consumption and shopping and their effect on our current cityscape / 16 A visual montage of a fictional shopping street / 17 Describes the second face of a city, the night and the history of signs and lightening / 18 About the different angles, distances and situations we were confrontated with text in the public space / 19 The letter as an artifact / 20 A visual chapter about the unlimited possibilities to describe a certain character / 21 About the similarities between the systems architecture and the system typography / 22 A history of built letters and letters as buildings / 23 A visual Chapter about letters as an object / 24 A visual link to the first interactive chapter on the CD which deals with moving threedimensional letters in space / 25 A visual link to the second interactive chapter on the CD which plays with the perception of text / 26 A visual link to the third interactive chapter on the CD shows the visual stress we were bombarded day by day
