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2015 Degree: Master of Arts (M.A.) »Adult education/lifelong learning« 2012-2015 Master-Studies »Adult education/lifelong learning« [Humboldt Universität Berlin] 2011 Degree: Bachelor of Engineering [B. Eng.] »Print- and Mediatechnology« 2008-2011 Studies of »Print- and Mediatechnology« / Beuth-Hochschule für Technik Berlin 2002-2008 Freelance graphic designer and instructor/ Berlin 1995-2001 Work in a print-collective in Göttingen / Typesetting, conventional film-montage, reprographic (…)

A banal wisdom is that life is an ongoing learning process. Very fine, if this is part of the self-perception and the planning for their own further training. If this is the case, I can offer you the following selections of training:
Programs Photoshop | Indesign | QuarkXPress | Illustrator | Freehand
Pre-Press PDF Creation | Tips and tricks for building useful documents in common design-programs | Image Editing Preparation | Help in the preparation of final artwork
Printing Overview (…)

Central topic of pre-press today is PDF [Portable Document Format]. But PDF is not like any other PDF. The Generation of a PDF for pre-press should include essential aspects like resolution of pictures, transparencies [Postscript-Level], embedding of fonts and when indicated colour-profiles. With the permanent development of this format even needs like the final control of colour-separations, bleeding and required or common technical printing-marks have moved in the focus.
Even if today (…)

The technicalwise reasonable and accurate realization of an creative artwork. The – oftentimes unloved – technical part of the universe of design. If creators are dedicating themselves too much to the aesthetical [superficial] side during the idea generation and don’t catch the dialectic between feasibility and the process-like developing idea, fundamental problems will be pop up in the moment of printing. Designing without the technical side remains in the idea. In contrast, a solid (…)

Solidarity network with decent working conditions.
graphic/design turn left 36 | t-shirts, hoodies and solidarity disorder berlin | rebel store ruf gestalten berlin | | typesetting and design dunkelkammerpictures | | fotograph montecruz foto | web developer/photographer
print hinkelstein druck berlin | collective print-shop printworks textildruck berlin rip berlin | jürgen kramer | pre-press/CTP
the word text-arbeit | editorial office lektorat lulay | lector raul zelik | (…)

navid@zersetzer.com

Typography is composition and definition of space. Readability and promoting the contextual message of a work often takes top priority. But interpreting readability in terms of recognizing letters/words and their correlation of a particular language, would be an unessential limitation. Readability and direction of an interpretation of a work and his message-intention are regulated by the cultural context, even as the creator of typography himself.
The knowledge of the intention of (…)