Caramblogage

Caramblogage is a strange beast that has found its way back to its roots in some fashion. When we started out, sometime around 2004, I was fresh out of English Lit, a freshman in graphic design. At the time, a place was needed to put down words on screen, no matter who would read them. So, this was the place to put them. An irregular series called Is Goodness a Fashion documented random thoughts on technology, advertising, society and, in it's fourth installment, ecology. The aim was to explore, mostly for myself, current topics I felt I should know a thing or two about. At the time, mostly due to age, I felt that I knew enough about anything to write at length and in detail, about everything. Now, due maybe some maturity acquired in the process of aging, I try and research what I write about before I write it. That explains the current nature of this beast: research is hard and time-consuming work. So in stead of researching an entirely new topic every few weeks, I made a de...

… insert desired state. Once again, Germany is made just a bit smaller through audacious use of telephone wires. Or wireless… This is the result that shrinking: Having shown you the final, let me share a directors cut version of what this may have looked like, had my brain had it's paper-folding, complicated way: Explanation: Somewhere along the road, I mentally turned a relatively simple layout into a more complicated four-way fold and built my document thus. Although this was a good exercise in layout, it was obviously not what the final product was intended to be– for which I am very grateful. Also for the hour-long conversation it took to iron out the final product.  Obviously, this is a flyer for the festival freisprechanlage.staging opinion , which I recommend to anyone currently toying with the thought of a short trip to Munich. They have a fine programme lined up for you. 

One of the joys of being a graphic designer, in spite of all the vituperation in previous posts, is the ability to be in several places at the same time. So from Berlin, I have, through modern technology and the telephone, developed the ability to send and receive thoughts directly from the initiators of the freisprechanlage festival in Munich. Somehow, we have also managed to create a flyer for the festival. All as if we were sitting in the same room. With crumpets. And possibly some icky-sweet Arabic tea. As a long-time fan of complaints choirs ( the Finnish one still blows me away ) I could not help myself but support this particular workshop.  This part of Freisprechanlage is on in Munich from the 13th — 21st of July 2011. It is a platform3 project in cooperation with the Cairo (complaints) Choir . Watch this space, there's more coming your way from Munich and soon from Berlin.