The Danish School of Design - Visual Communication 2009
Final Project
Typeface design and Danish national identity
How can a typeface express the essence of Denmark, its language and its national identity?
The identity of any particular entity such as a country is an exceedingly subjective notion. It can therefore often be hard to recognise one’s own identity. My final project attempts to find the heart of Danish identity and illustrate it through a specially designed typeface. Diatrics can give a language a unique appearance, so the creation of a typeface not only designed for a country, but the language itself, aids in legibility and creative flair in the final product. By highlighting certain characteristics found in the individual letterforms, as well as following a tradition that already existing in Danish type design helped achieve this. In this respect the final product, the typeface Dania, achieves the task of expressing an identity in both the overall design as well as in the specific characteristics when used in context.
Areas of interest
Typeface design
Graphic design
Identity and concept development
Branding and strategic design
Contact
Jane Register
M: + 45 2695 6338
E: hello@janeregister.com
W: www.janeregister.com
CV
Education
2007 – 2009: The Danish School of Design, Masters in Visual Communication
2003 – 2006: University of South Australia, Australia, Bachelor of Visual Communication
2001 – 2005: University of Adelaide, Australia, Bachelor of Media
Exchange
2008: Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich, Switzerland
2006: The Danish School of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
Competences
Typeface design
Graphic design
Concept development and idea generation
Exhibition and spatial design
Photography
Image processing and graphics programs
Internships
2008: Goodmorning Technology, Graphic Designer
2005: Marsha Dearden Communication, Advertising/Design Assistant
2005: Rising Sun Pictures, Production Assistant
Related Experience
2007 – 2009: Graphic designer for Quasi Teater
2006 – 2009: Freelance graphic designer
Languages
English (native), Danish (fluent), French, German
Exhibitions
2007 ‘Crosskick’ Potsdam, Germany
Group exhibition on the design process with students from The Danish Design School and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
http://www.crosskick.de/eng/potsdam-copenhagen.php
2006 ‘PincPonc’
Participant in online international design project PincPonc
http://www.pincponc.de/gallery/australia-02/
2005 ‘Prism’ Adelaide, Australia
Selection of graphic design work
