books editorial prediploma documentary book and typographic portrait was developed at abk stuttgart in 2018 within the course fuer dich ueber dich led by prof gerwin schmidt it consists of a 504 page documentary book about industrial design student lenn gerlach and a custom typeface created as a typographic portrait together book and typeface form a unified editorial system that translates observation personal preference design process and student development into a coherent narrative structure

documentary book
the 504 page publication traces the early creative development of industrial design student lenn gerlach over two semesters research prototyping
corrections and final models are interwoven with personal milestones offering an insight into design as a continuous process of making questioning editing and rebuilding throughout the book large parts are crossed out corrected or overwritten making visible how ideas change through critique by professors by others and by the designer himself printed in large format with a silkscreened vinyl cover the publication documents design not as a linear result but as an evolving process of decisions revisions and accumulated thinking

typographic portrait
the typeface lenn was developed as a typographic portrait based on personal preferences lenn was asked to identify three favorite typefaces from an existing collection garamond gill sans egyptienne through manual redrawing overlapping subtraction and addition of forms these references were transformed into a new synthetic variant the result is a hybrid typeface that translates personal preference into form and extends the documentary book into a typographic system