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I Never Learned To Type With Ten Fingers
University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication (DIV), Graphic Design & Illustration.
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

Luise Schröder founded a private business school in 1910 in Stettin, a city once part of Germany. With a focus on typewriting and stenography, she was a local educator of modern communication. Throughout four generations, her family was impacted by global technological developments and socio-political shifts.‘I Never Learned to Type with Ten Fingers’, edited by Schröder's great-great-grandson and graphic designer Laslo Strong, compiles stories from a family-run school. It delves into the past century of typography, through personal and corporate documents. Pictures, letterheads, graphic prints, signs, and newspaper articles provide insight into a particular corporate identity. In dialogue with this research, a series of typefaces was designed dedicated to the characters of the school. They give voice to anecdotes and speculative stories about family and typography.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
typography, blackletter, fraktur, history, calligraphy, typewriting, technology, type design, graphic design, family, typeface, urban, photography, fiction, slash-fiction, Second World War, Polen, Germany
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-8692OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-8692DiVA, id: diva2:1696990
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Visual Communication (Master)
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Available from: 2022-09-29 Created: 2022-09-19 Last updated: 2022-09-29Bibliographically approved

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