Jan van Eyck / Hubert van Eyck Academie
Onderzoeker ontwerpen / Researcher Design / *Latent Stare*
01.01.11 – 31.12.12
vasmarmatakis [at] gmail [dot] com
The aim of my research is a detailed inquiry into the typographic language of the Greek civil service as experienced through its official state documents, their resulting – often haphazard – aesthetics, as well as their use as a tool of ordinary – and sometimes extraordinary – everyday transactions between the individual and the public administration.
More specifically, the components of my research will include: the typewriter (manual, electronic or otherwise) as a formal typesetting tool in the Greek civil service and, in particular, the extensive use of Courier as the primary typeface in the ‘branding’ of official state documents; the social and psychological implications of the resulting visual language and the ways it reflects national attitudes that eventually become established values; the possibility of establishing this particular visual language as a form of cultural legacy in Greece today.
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