Englischboard.de :: Thema-Überblick

Bauer Elke · Verfasst am: 16. Jan 2010 14:20 Titel:

Danke fürs durchlesen!!
smile

Caree · Verfasst am: 16. Jan 2010 10:48 Titel:

Bauer Elke

Hallo

Ich möchte mich für einen Studiengang (grafik Design) in Holland bewerden. Der Bewerbung muss man einen Letter of motivation dazugeben.
Es würde mir sehr helfen, wenn jemand zeit hätte, diesen auf Grammatik und Rechtschreibfehler zu lesen

vielen, lieben Dank im voraus!
lg elke

hier der Brief:

The first time I heard of the KABK was 3 years ago, when I had just made my first steps in graphic design in Vienna at the „graphische“. A former student of my school had just finished the Master programme for type and media and came to visit his old professors. Curious as I am I couldnt contain myself and asked him to show some things from his time in the netherlands. And it was b e a u t i f u l. It was the first time I saw people who concentrate more or less their whole field of study on this small 24 letters. Letters that were reason for several discussions in my gymnasium when I again refused to deliver my work in required Comic Sans, 12pt.

Five years back my parents thought it might be a good idea to send me to an artistic school to do the things I most liked - doing handcrafts and drawing. These 4 years at the BORG St.Pölten surely formed my thinking and understanding of art, of how to use materials and how to handle the feeling in your gut to create something. After graduation I started my art history studies, which were wonderful but something was missing: I wanted to DO something, to CREATE something. So I attended the 3 years programme at the Graphische in Vienna, which, I think, taught me all the necessary knowledge to survive as a graphic designer. The content of the programme was wide spread, from traditional etching and silk screen to animation and webdesign. It allowed us to get to know a lot of different techniques and design fields. On the other hand this circumstance could not allow us to specialize in one favourite subject. After my diploma work I was sure that I want to go on with my studies. I still feel the need to learn, learn, learn, especially in my favourite interest: typography.

After some lectures of Erik van Blokland, Gerard Unger and Christoph Noordzij I was sure there is only one place for me I really want to go to: the Netherlands - and the KABK. The Netherlands have a long history of good type designers. I want to find out what are the reasons for this? Are there differences between Austrian and Dutch (type) design? Is it still possible to have local varieties in a globalized world? What is my access to graphic design and how is it influenced by my education and experience?
I strongly believe that graphic designers have a social responsibility as they have the possibilities to create or influence the visual communication in our society. I‘m not that naive to think WE‘re gonna change the world with our design, but maybe play a role in the way information is perceived. And typograhpy is for me the main key in this perception of information.

To be honest I wasnt the child who drew alphabets instead of butterflies nor did I dream of becoming a type designer while playing in the sandbox. My type professor at the „graphische“ inflamed this interest and love for type that drives me now to apply for this master programme. I want to seize the chance to learn, specialize and experiment with typography to find different accesses - Things that are often difficult in professional life, where you are more or less tied to the ideas of your client.
To put it in a nutshell, I am highly motivated, from my work experience I already know the some of the lows of graphic design and even more the highs, that are made by good work. And I know, that I yet know so few.