This project is an educational project. It was an assignment on Typography Design given to tertiary education students from the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU, Singapore. The assignment was for each student to design Drop Caps as a font family. The outcome was multiple font families created by students and inspired on the flora, fauna, and unique features of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. From this, the best Drop Caps were printed in the book A Garden For All, published by the editorial Epigram Books in Singapore.
Designed by Danne Ojeda
Recognized by A' Design Award.
D-Sign-Lab of Danné Ojeda / Interview by Lyudmila Favardin http://www.editionlidu.com/D-Sign-Lab-of-Danne-Ojeda-Interview.html Danné Ojeda / Short Biography Danné Ojeda is an Associate Professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Danné's work engages contemporary communication design, art practice, and theory. She has worked as a Professor of Art History at the Higher Institute for the Arts in Havana (1996–2000) and as a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Havana. She was a UNESCO research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production in Fine Art, Design and Theory, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2001–2003). She taught graphic design at the Modern International Art and Design Academy, Chongqing Technology and Business University, China (2006–2008). Furthermore, Danné has actively published, lectured on, and curated exhibitions related to contemporary art and design since 1995. In 2003, she founded d-file studio in Amsterdam, —a platform for concept and project development in the areas of visual art, design, and theory—, from which she has mainly worked for and collaborated with cultural institutions that include the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico, among others. Her design works have been amply recognised with the Chicago Athenaeum—Good Design Awards (US), the German Design Award, German Design Council (DE), Red Dot Design Award: Communication Design (DE), iF International Forum Design Award (DE), the ‘Lorenzo Il Magnifico’ International Award— Florence Art/Design Biennale (IT), A’ (A-PRIME) Design Award (IT), the International Design Award, IDA (US), among others. Her complete publication and exhibition design oeuvre commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) was awarded Asia’s Top Designers Award, Singapore Design Award 2014. Thus, her works can be found in some of the most well-known museum collections worldwide.
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