Overview
A newspaper for the newspaper.
Clearly Wolfgang paid attention in design school when learning about grids.
What a fun concept. This oversized work was created as a clever love letter to newspapers for his Thesis. I would love to interview Wolfgang now to talk hear his views.
How the world has changed since 2012. Personally, I grieve in a small in a way the death of newspapers. There was something about the familiarity, the tactic nature and the integrity of news and journalists that felt safe (for lack of a better work).
Here is a rough translation (from German), of his work.
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To this day, the newspaper maintains its status as the most popular reading material.
For well over three centuries, up until the rise of radio, it held a monopoly on being the first to report on all current events and developments in the state and in society.
The newspaper has had a lasting influence on how generations see the world. It helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment and democracy, but it has also been used by despots and dictators for their own purposes. The history of the newspaper as a regularly published medium is closely intertwined with the Early Modern period. Urbanisation, liberalisation and industrialisation in the nineteenth century significantly expanded the scope of newspapers.
With all its strengths and weaknesses, the newspaper offers an abundance of rich, multifaceted material that goes far beyond the length of an ordinary issue. Enough reason, then, for an unusual newspaper about the newspaper.
Bachelor Thesis, Winter Semester 2011/12,
HAW Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Christina Hackenschuh, Prof. Christoph Barth
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