I Never Learned To Type With Ten Fingers
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student 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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
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
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-8692OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-8692DiVA, id: diva2:1696990
Educational program
Visual Communication (Master)
Examiners
2022-09-292022-09-192022-09-29Bibliographically approved