Lecturer: Prof. Heike Grebin, Jan Vincent Dufke, Simon Thiefes
2024
Typography
Web2Print
For most of my life, I considered myself a person who did not enjoy reading (at all). However, I am still drawn to chaotic and thrilling layouts. One day, I tried to layout some paragraphs with CSS Grid and accidentally did something that made it look good. And I thought to myself: Is this what chaos is? Something you don’t do intentionally? So I learned my lesson: You can’t control chaos. You need to embrace it. I used HTML, CSS, and Paged.js as my tools, and I wanted to demonstrate the capabilities they have to offer. My website also contains pictures that pop up through the hover effect. However, you can only look at one picture at a time. If you want to see all the pictures, it’s necessary to print out the website. This effect derives from the idea that it is easy to stay online while consuming content. On websites, you can use hyperlinks or different tabs to look up a picture if you need it. In contrast to that, a book is not flexible; it’s limited to itself as soon as it’s printed. In consequence, if one must choose between a website or a book, naturally a website would be the more valuable option. Well, not in this case.