Neue Deutsche Architektur

A graduating project during my graphic design studies in Montreal, I built an oversize fictitious German-language magazine, the subject being a North American special issue. I shot each photo with an old Yashicamat medium format camera, paying attention to landscape, detail in material and urban context when photographing around Montreal's downtown and Plateau neighborhoods.

Working with an architect to help sensitize my eye and vocabulary to the details that are novel in a building such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, I wrote some content and culled other material from writing about architecture, translating to German online.

What was supposed to be a typographic project became something less about the words than the images which the words were there to support. I designed a grid which could house body copy exclusively in the margins, and could also swing around 90 degrees to allow for large vertical layouts. Being influenced by what of Max Bill and Karl Gerstner I was able to find as a student in Montreal, white space was inflated or swallowed depending on the context.

Within the organization of images and the nature of the typography, and how they interact with the content of the images, there is also an underlying discourse about cleanliness/emptiness, mechanization, history and politics .