Education Box
The first times
Mariam-Sophie Karl
Alina Bachofer
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Product Concept
Corporate Identity
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2022
Project
Alter Leipziger Bahnhof
Mariam-Sophie Karl
& Institut for Spatial Resilience
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Installation
Concept and Construction Map
Initiator Communication Project
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2022/2023
THE ALB
The old Leipziger Bahnhof is a station in the centre of Dresden that is no longer in use. There are some interested parties who want to build on this site. Currently, a part of the area is used by the city in cooperation with the Institute for Spatial Resilience as an experimental memorial to commemorate the victims of the deportation.
(Alter Leipziger Bahnhof)
The project here is about the people who already using this place.
you
decide!
Obviously - it is a brochure!
It is about a well known topic. So we decided to approach the topic a little differently.
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Quantity and quality over your eating behaviour. A booklet about your food. How do you behave and where can you decide?
Quality & Quantity
finding Titel
As a theme, we have chosen quality and quantity in relation to our eating habits.
chapter opening
The idea was that we would have a total of four main topics. We introduced these with the lead pages. Since we wanted to create a relaxed atmosphere, we inserted a kind of pun on each lead page.
first taste
To interest readers, we have collected personal opinions and presented them as an introduction.
When choosing the colours, we paid special attention to the coherence with the respective themes.
The right colour
Close up pictures
We took the photographs ourselves.
The food was to be shown from an unusual perspective.
more then habits
We quickly realised that the brochure should be more than just an overview of our eating habits. So we included surveys, facts and alternatives.
facts and data
We collected information and
fun facts about certain foods.
Texting and wording
Colloquial phrases should immerse the reader on an emotional level.
in the end,
only you decide.
Data Visualisazion
Mariam-Sophie Karl
Alina Bachofer
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Analysis & Research
Development of Representation
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2020
January
sleep
and
rhythm
In this project my partner and I had a closer look on how our sleeping habits are changing in relation to our age.
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Our sleep is influenced by many factors. And can vary in individual parameters.
On average, a cycle of an adult person looks something like the one shown here.
it's about
process
In the end, the result is made up of a lot of trial and error and sketching of different possibilities of presentation.
1
A circular arrangement shows the
whole day, in relation to the sleep phases.
Each line represents one minute.
3
A combination of draft one and two. The idea arose to show the comparison between the different age groups.
2
The bar chart has two time axes. On the x-axis runs a night, on the
y-axis is the length of the phases.
baby
adult
older people
4
Another parameter was picked up. The activity of the brain in the respective sleep phases.
5
The next consideration should bring distance to conventional forms of representation, such as bar charts.
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The triangles correspond to the sizes and lengths of the respective phases.
Each triangle
a phase
Each triangle 5 minute
and brain activity
Each triangle 1 minute
and brain activity
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Another parameter was picked up. The activity of the brain in the respective sleep phase colours are used to try to show the age better
REM
approx.5min
Our brain activity is slightly increased, as if we are watching an action movie.
Babies spend a lot of their sleep in the dream stage.
Fall asleep
approx.10min
The brain reduces its activities and breathing becomes calmer.
Light Sleep
approx.20min
Our brain is about as active here as it is when we are awake. Newborns do not have this phase.
Deep sleep
up to 60min
The deep sleep phase is the part of sleep in which only our brain is active. It processes the events and new learning from the day. At this time in the cycle, our brain is at its most active. Our muscles are completely relaxed.
The deep sleep phase, is the phase in which we also sleepwalk. In the first cycle, this phase lasts about an hour, after which it decreases until it no longer occurs from the fourth cycle onwards.
Wake-up
approx.10min
The brain activity is similar to that in the falling asleep phase. The duration is about 10 minutes. This phase only occurs at the end of sleep.
Time Awake
Waking times vary according to age. One wakes up about three times per hour during sleep, but can only remember it, if it lasts longer than 3 seconds.
Waking times vary according to age. One wakes up about three times per hour during sleep, but can only remember it, if it lasts longer than 3 seconds.
Time Awake
Waking times vary according to age. One wakes up about three times per hour during sleep, but can only remember it, if it lasts longer than 3 seconds.
under 3 months
one - two years
six - thirteen years
24 hours
99 years
four - eleven months
three - four years
adult
from the age of fifty
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2019
July
Mariam-Sophie Karl
poster &
print documentation
Poster development
Translate Content visually
Michaela DePrince
Fairy Tale or War Child
“One morning the Harmattan blew an old yellowed magazine down the street, and it slapped me in the face. On the cover was a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe. I didn’t know what she was doing in the photo, but she looked so happy and content, that all I knew was that I had to be this person. Just maybe if I did what she did I would and could be happy one day too.”
Mabinty Bangura
Michaela DePrince was born as Mabinty Bangura in war-torn Sierra Leone during the country’s decade-long civil war. Rebels killed her father, and shortly after her mother died of fever and starvation.
Michaela had vitiligo, a disease that causes patches of skin to lose its color. In Michaela’s native land vitiligo was considered a curse of the devil.
This caused her uncle to abandon her at an orphanage. There she was taunted and abused by the women who cared for the children. They called her the devil’s child.
Michaela DePrince
At age four Michaela’s life made another turn: she heard that she would be adopted by an American family. Due to the increasingly dangerous situation the orphanage was closed and the children fled to a UN refugee camp in New Guinea. From there the journey continued to Ghana and there she saw her: “She was wearing bright red shoes. I’m your new mama” she said. Just then she realized also her best friend Mabinty had been adopted by the same family.
In their hotel room Michaela roamed through their adoptive mother’s luggage “expecting to find a pair of pink satin pointe shoes. After all isn’t that what’s supposed to happen in a fairy tale? But they weren’t there.” When her mother figured out what her dream was she simply said: “You will dance.” And she did: she studied ballet for the next thirteen years. She first dreaded to look in to the studio mirror and and see her spots, but eventually she forgot about them and focused on her dancing.
Produced by Julia Wilczok / Directed by Elias Ressegatti / Camera and Photos by Fridolin Schoepper / Edited by Noemi Sugaya / Sound by Alexander Hankoff / Music by Nathan Rosenberg of The DoghouseNYC / Light by Darell Day / Styling by Julie Brooke Williams with clothing & accessories by Morgan Le Faye, D&G and Arielle De Pinto / Hair & Make-Up by Ingeborg at Factory Downtown using Make Up Forever / Production Assistance by Jack Foley / Shot on location at Factory Studios
statement and effect
The strong and hard contrasts in the poster are deliberately set like this.
They bring Michaela's story to life on different levels.
The title "War Child Fairy Tale" forms a contrast in itself, which is reinforced by the clarity of black and white.
In addition, the black surface can also be understood as a curtain on the stage.
The poster is the result of many different drafts.
Visualisation of Information
Mariam-Sophie Karl
Sophia Huber
Kim Fettes
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Research
Video Concept
Animation
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2020
July
Karl
Mariam –
Sophie
Good Design
is honest.
–Dieter Rams
education
2019-2022
Communication Design
Bachelor of Arts – HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
2015-2018
CERTIFIED GRAPHIC DESIGNER
STAATLICH GEPRÜFTER GRAFIKDESIGNER
Akademie für Kommunikation, Stuttgart Berufskolleg für Grafikdesign
2015-2018
technical college certificate
FACHHOCHSCHULREIFE
Akademie für Kommunikation, Stuttgart Berufskolleg für Grafikdesign
2009-2015
gcse
MITTLERE REIFE
Realschule Rutesheim
work experience
2019-2021
format+
Onlinemagazin Hochschule für Gestaltung, SocialMedia, Management
05.2016-07.2018
LEWA
Marketing department, part-time job
2017
GOLFCLUB SCHLOSS MONREPOS
Designing the 25th anniversary brochure
2017
​​WRITING COMPETITION – Zeichen Setzen
short story category, shortlisted Top 10, Baden-Württemberg
2016
COMPETITION GBI
Designing two murals, 2nd prize
2014
Macromedia
Creative design and animation for games and interactive media, Media Workshop
2013
MARxmaid
Internship, Chemnitz
Büro für Produkt- & Grafikdesign
2022-present
Institut für räumliche Resilienz
Freiwilliges ökologisches Jahr (voluntary service)
Projekt support and lead, Photography, Design, Concept support
Never think you've arrived,
always be in a constant state of becoming.
–Bob Dylan
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
–Henry David Thoreau
