name
Benjamin Dahl (bennyd)
country
germany
university
Bauhaus University Weimar
department
Graphic Design
university address
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
99423 Weimar
university country
germany
url
born
Fri, 07. Oct 1983
studies
Visual Communication, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2004-2009
degree(s)
Diplom-Designer, 2009
working experience
Moniteurs GmbH, 2008-2009
Bauhaus.TransferzentrumDESIGN, 2006-2010
interest
Graphic Design, Typography, Information Design
software
Complete Adobe, Prepress, AV-Production, Office, Unix/Linux, CAD/3D, Programming
spoken languages
Danish, basic
English, fluent
German, fluent
id
0008873
title
Fantastatour – Ein Ausflug für Kinder in die aufregende Schriftwelt
professor(s)
Prof. Jay Rutherford, Dipl.-Des. Alexander Branczyk
rank
1057
tags
typography interface design book
year of making
2009
uploaded
2010-02-13 12:45:15
downloads
Fantastatour-Documentation-Extract
For my Diploma-Work „Fantastatour – A trip for kids to the exciting world of type“ I had been facing up to the possiblities of early typografic education and the development of media competencies on primary school children.
After an intensive research about the history of writing and how children learn to read an write today I developed a school book for children from 9 years with a selfwritten story where typographic characters become alive. Additionally I developed an interface for a writing software for typography beginners and amateurs. The key object is a new and easier way to choose a specific font for a given task by navigating through the temperaments of typefaces and not through formal details.
Screen Versions of the Book (extract) and the documentation of the work can be requested via email.