Noa van den Boogaard


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Noa van den Boogaard











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Designing meaning with vernacular typo-graphics in the city streets of Rotterdam.

A toolkit for the introverted activist for writing the city and spreading their typographic message through the city


 

Can we read the streets and unravel the intentions behind visual messages we encounter in the city streets?

This research explores the role of typo-graphic design in meaning- and place-making.


 

Who holds the power of design, and what do they do with it?

A speculative report on visual inflation, with the receipt as a visualization of owed debt and depiction of value. 



Can a problem always be solved?

Interactive performance and research on how to exist with complexity, and to thrive within conflict, without feeling the need for reducing, solving or generalizing it.


 

Exploring the possibility for a socially engaged graphic design in two museums that are reflecting on how to (re)position themselves in the city they were located in.