Portfolio My name is Leonie Ketteler and I am a 25 year old Design student from Germany who just finished her Bachelor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. The following pages will show a small overview of a few projects I worked on during my studies.
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Einblick
k (BA)
The result of the research in my bachelor semester and of my conceptual design is a 175-page magazine that consists of an introduction, five chapters and an appendix. It contains 118 pages of texts that are divided into a short story, excerpts from a book, six specialized and other texts, four poems, an interview and twelve biographical texts. 54 pictures created and curated by three different Romani artists are placed throughout the magazine. The first chapter describes the history of migration of the Romani people from India to Europe starting more than a thousand years ago. In the second chapter the language of Romanes is introduced and it’s origin in Sanskrit and Hindi is explained. In the third chapter the topic is the genocide on the Romani people during the Holocaust. Chapter number four deals with the deportation that poses an immediate threat to Romani people who are suppo‑ sed to return to their so called »safe« homelands after residing in Germany for more than twenty years. The last chapter is dedicated to the representation of the group by the example of literature.
Duch
hamp
The first week of this course we did a transcript of an interview. In my case it was a dialogue between Marcel Duchamp and an English journalist. In the second week it was our task to work with the interview typographically and convey the atmosphere and the characters and their way of speaking visually. In my transcript I tried to visualize the pronunciations and pauses of the two people who spoke in a very different pace and with different accents. I hope, that with my transcription, also readers not knowing the audio version of the interview will be able to identify the differences - and will manage to read the interview in a similar rhythm.
Man
natee
This folded brochure is the result of a one-week graphic course. The content was supposed to feature an animal of our choice in the form of texts and pictures. The form and design of the brochure should also manage to illustrate our animal. My choice was the manatee and I decided to take a square formate in order to imitate the manatee’s compact form and chubby constitution. My texts rotate in a 90 degree angle so that the reader has to turn the brochure around like the manatee does in the water.
Pe
People
I ejoy observing people and drawing them. These are impressions from my people-sketchbook.
Pe
People
Architec
cture
Here you can see examples of my graphical approaches on architecture.
The
eatre
This booklet was my first full-semester project. So I had three months to develop my idea for the six different theatres in Halle, where I studied. I decided to address the financial shortcomings of the theatres by getting rid of all the pictures in the booklet and printing it only in black and white. I chose a small formate that fits in any pocket, but is also very convenient for printing. I used red for in-between pages and the cover, inspired by the red curtain, but these pages are only in red and white to also make printing more easy. Berthold Walbaum Book is the font I used and to save space I chose to use lines to separate different information from each other. The only playful element is the page number that moves up and down the pages like in a flip book.
Looser B
Books
This one-week workshop took place in our university library with the aim to redesign books that hadn’t been lent out for ten years or more. My blind pick was a catalogue about the DDR artist J.R. Becher with posters made by other DDR artists for J.R. Becher’s 90th birthday. The posters where printed quite small in the original book so I decided to find a way to print them larger size without having a huge format book. In the end I printed the posters in A3 but folded them and bound them together in a way that the final format of the publication was A5.
foern
My font Foern was developed in my sixth semester in my type design course with Prof Andrea Tinnes. We had to draw »tickets« from two boxes, because the topic of the semester was “Chance“. One box held the kind of font – I ended up with: »gothic print« and the other box held verbs and I got »complicated«. I started hand-writing gothic print, then drew the letters with font lab and then changed all the curve points to corners. My »n« ended up being my origin letter and I developed all the other letters of the alphabet from it. Even if my method of creating the font was not too complicated, the building of the letters and their kerning was in‑ deed anything else but easy. My specimen cites the angles of »Foern« with its folding. The pictures follow the topic of »chance« and always show a pair of fotographs taken of the ground and the above in the same place.
Pr
risms
This poster was produced in an offsetprinting course. Apart from theorie classes each student had to design a poster to the topic of light and was assigned a design ca‑ tegory, mine was typography. In two test prints I determined how small letters can be in order to still be legibly. My result was that 1 point or even 0.5 point could still be printed and read with an hourglass. In my final print that you see here, I used 1 point to 5 point letters and created grids with them. The letters I used were R, B and K which stood for red/pink, blue and copper. My motive is a room with three prisms and their shadows printed in the colors light pink, copper and blue and their mixes. In a second print session the light pink was changed to a red chan‑ ging the colors effectively.
2D
D—3D
These foldouts are the product of my free chosen project on the topic »complicated«. I started off with studying origami and then realized how graphic they were. The material I chose is called Kraftplex and is a cardboard that is made with‑ out glue, but pressed with air under high pressure. I cut out each piece of the foldout with our university’s laser and glued them together on a non‑ ripping textile used for bookbinding. I ended up with six different foldouts, four of which are shown here. Their formate is A4 that can be folded into their shape by hand and afterwards be made perfectly flat again. I wanted to show people the beauty of these foldout plans, the mircales of getting transformed from 2D to 3D and understanding the system behind them. They are not so complicated after all, or are they?