THE WORDS BEHIND THE WORKS
What do you read? How do you use text? 24 interviews with graphic design end exam students

This newspaper was handed out at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie end exam exhibition 2006, where the graphic design department had its own show, to give people that visited the show something to take home, something that gave them background information on the things they had seen.

I interviewed my classmates about what kind of texts they had been reading or using, what kind of texts were important or inspiring for them. This makes a portrait of a class, but also a portrait of the different kinds of text that exist (they talked about science-fiction, RSS feed, newspapers, fanzines, dictionaries, advice-books, novels, internet forums, Georges Perec, tags, revolutionary texts etc.), how texts can be read differently, and what role typography plays in this.

Within a simple column-structure, I gave everybody his/her own kind of typography, based on the subject he/she talks about. For example, Clare Mc Nally talks about why she likes to read dictionaries. Her interview has the typography of a dictionary; the first word she says with an 'a' is bold and set apart from the rest of the text, the next word starting with 'b' gets the same treatment etc. This makes an abc of: and, but, computer, don't, every, find, get, having, is etc.

This treatment doesn't make it easier to read the interview, but it does make you aware of the way you read and how typography can guide you in this.

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CONTENT OVERVIEW
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______page 2________

LAS VEGAS
Rebecca Stephany
On Learning from Las Vegas

CHECK
Clare Mc Nally
On a dictionary and thesaurus

RADEN
Ingeborg Scheffers
Over dyslexie

SCRIPT
Jonathan Puckey
On programming languages
(see further on next page)

______page 3________

GELD
Vincent van de Waal
Over kunst en zaken

ORDINARY
Paul Gangloff
On Georges Perec
(see further on next page)

______page 4________

SYSTEEM
Marit Molenaar
Over kleuren in romans

ADVICE
Lane Kristensen
On books that give advice
(see further on next page)

______page 5________

CAPTIONS
Naama Iron
On starting and not finishing

REVOLUTION
Joseph Miceli
On situationists

FORUM
Liron Ross
On technical questions
(see further on next page)


______page 6________

EINDE
Marielle Frederiks
Over romans

RHIZOOM
Timo Hofmeijer
Over wikipedia

TAGS
Felix Kramer
Over del.icio.us en graffiti
(see further on next page)

______page 7________

TRAINING
Selina Bütler
On typography

OORSPRONG
Celine Wouters
Over eerste woorden
(see further on next page)

______page 8________

LIST
Jens Schildt
On a wordlist

CRITICISM
Assaf Bezalel
On science fiction

______page 9________

DAILY
Risto Kalmre
On papers and magazines

USEFUL
Robin Gadde
On second-hand books

ABSTRACT
Matthias Kreutzer
On fanzines
(see further on next page)

______page 10________

TRIGGERS
Peter Ström
On RSS feed

SONGS
Ian Brown
On Music
(see further on next page)

______page 11________

POETRY
Hilde Meeus
On analyzing languages

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SOURCES (discussed and others)