This is my graduation project made at HBKsaar, titled New Mimeo Revolution. In addition to writing a thesis, I printed one hundred pamphlets on the mimeograph and set up an exhibition. For this, I created a visual identity with Hobeaux as display typeface and Pitch for text uses. I combined those with a very direct and emotional language of forms and symbols.
This post shows several images of the project as a whole, followed by a selection of the individual pamphlets. From the project website:
The Mimeo-Revolution was a movement of young American artists during the 50s and 60s, who spread their art and thoughts amongst the people through personal commitment and the use of a stencilprinter, also called a mimeograph.
The mimeograph was invented at the end of the 19th century, when ever-increasing bureaucracy also intensified the demand for copying documents. Shortly after the mimeograph revolutionized office work, the cheap and simple process also conquered the streets: schools, churches, subcultures and parties printed their own documents independently from professional printers or major publishers. This led to the rise of student groups like “Weiße Rose”, which allied itself against the Nazi regime during the Second World War; or students during the ’68 Revolutions, who resisted rigid structures, oppression, the Vietnam War, and conservative sexual morality all over the world.
Nowadays, I choose to print pamphlets with this traditional technique, because I want to continue to build upon what the generations before me have been able to achieve. It’s important for me to engage myself and get my hands dirty during the process of making a difference.
I am currently interested in topics related to environmental protection, democracy, gender equality and human rights. In addition to political topics, I also deal with artists who use words in a particularly eloquent or emotional manner, or who criticize or speak from the heart.
During my final year at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, I printed 100 different pamphlets on the previously mentioned and other topics, on a 1967 ideal stencilprinter and a Gestetner printer from the 1950s.
Typefaces
Formats
- Web (4996)
- Branding/Identity (7409)
- Posters/Flyers (5118)
- Exhibition/Installation (1009)
Topics
- Graphic Design (2754)
- Activism (988)
- Art (4130)
- Politics (768)
Designers/Agencies
- Chiara Schwarz (8)
Tagged with
- student exhibitions (139)
- thesis/graduation projects (193)
- mimeography (3)
- about printing (76)
- political posters (1)
- poster series (721)
- HBKsaar (20)
- protest (113)
- environmentalism (82)
- democracy (17)
- gender issues (66)
- equality (18)
- human rights (24)
- student works (669)
- series (1019)
- typographic eclecticism (261)
- flyers (274)
- distortion (313)
- rotated type (1969)
- Chuck Palahniuk (1)
- revolution (15)
- eroded/weathered type (186)
- floods (2)
- multilingual (2230)
- German (language) (2137)
- English (language) (2070)
- French (language) (2196)
- typewriters (108)
- recycling (47)
- swashes (654)
- Ronald Reagan (3)
- type on a curve (956)
- refugees (27)
- stacked glyphs (479)
- outlined type (1152)
- italic/script on an angle (347)
- censored (28)
- all caps blackletter (39)
- blackletter (275)
- starbursts (144)
- speech balloons (158)
- type size gradients (47)
- tickets (98)
- meat (36)
- reversed type (3051)
- dry transfer lettering (149)
- asterisk (*) (200)
Artwork location
- Germany (3487)
- Saarbrücken (58)
In Sets
- More is more (Matthijs Sluiter) (130)
- Designs by Women (Fonts In Use Staff) (2967)
- 2+ typefaces by 1 designer (Florian Hardwig) (938)
- Future Fonts (James Edmondson (OH no Type Co.)) (457)
- Colossal Combinations (Jay Mellor) (2113)
- Serif Goodness (Jay Mellor) (181)
- Grotesk or Grotesque (Jay Mellor) (117)
- VG (Jen Dodaro) (22)
- Rising Climate Justice (Jake Pilgrim) (257)
- round (Dan Luo) (10)
- Rotulo (Mauro Soriano) (11)
3 Comments on “New Mimeo Revolution”
The typeface named Résistance was made by a collective of nine at ÉNSAD Paris (Pauline Cormault, Esther Michaud, Claire Mucchieli, Merlin Andreae, Raphaël Maman, Pedro Gomes-Cardoso, Juliette Nier, Gabrielle Meistretty, Damien Bauza) using Glyphr Studio with the help of the French foundry Velvetyne and released on December 9th, 2015.
The text Die Berliner Boulevard zeitung BZ schreibt is set in Gill Kayo, not Gill Sans Ultrabold, and the small text –Jane Norling should be in ITC Bookman Italic.
What a wonderful project, Chiara! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!
Jay, thanks for your keen eye. The info about Résistance had been added to our typeface page just before you made your comment. “Gill Sans UltraBold” is another name for Gill Kayo, and the one used in Monotype’s official digital version. You’re right that we have a dedicated entry for this extreme style, and I’ve assigned it now.