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Name Lina Ozerkina
Profession graphic designer
Currently located Vilnius, LT

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Education
2000-03 Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
BA in Graphic Design
2003-05 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Netherlands
BA in Graphic Design

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Contact
mob. +370 68119187
or lina@alfa60.com

 




 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

This book is for you. It is first an experimental SKETCHBOOK and second an introduction to typography. Within the SKETCHBOOK’s pages you can find histories, explanations, figures and examples dealing with certain aspects of typographic design and type in use. Printed on selected sketches, original posters, scrap and abandoned print-outs collected during the academic year 2oo4-o5 at the Rietveld Academie, each piece is an original, but I would be happier to know you use the book rather than put it on a bookshelf. In other words, it is what it is: a SKETCHBOOK which is completed only when you write yourself into it by using it, even criticizing it.

Do read, do think, do make.

Note: some of the the material used to compile this book is taken from a variety of copyrighted books which are not referenced. The selected information has been included here for you to learn and get inspired about typography, and perhaps this inspiration might cause you to go out and buy those big, heavy and expensive books. It should be said that this project was not done for profit and in limited edition so I hope the breach of copyright can be overlooked in the name of...

This book is an edited reproduction of Grammar Is Important by A. W. McGuire, Irwin Publishing, Toronto, Canada, 1949. Edited and produced by Lina Ozerkina and Tania Theodorou.

A one to one reproduction of the original version, edited in such a way that only the grammatical examples for each exercise are printed, this creates an involuntary poetry in the book. The final text was also recorded vocally by Patrick Healy and is included with the book on CD.

Printing, binding and silkscreening at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.


Thank you:

Linda Van Deursen
Johannes Schwarz
Alex Barbaix
Kees Mas
Christian Honig
Patrick Healy

A series of three self-explanatory instrucional books on book-binding.

Each book guides the viewer on how to make the book themselves by illustrating every step of the process with a full page photograph.

Tools define professions; when taken out of context these tools can often offer more ambiguous interpretations.

A limited series of silk-screened t-shirts depicting 'tools of the trade' but where the trade becomes unclear and open to creative interpretation by the wearer who can, for example, wear the microphone shirt and claim it to stand for 'politician' just as 'singer'.

Posters made for the Gerrit Rietveld Academie open day, Letterpress.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Images and sketches
 
 
 
An interview with photographer/former soldier Idan Hayosh. From an assignment given by Jop van Bennekom
 

 
 
 
 
 
Series of posters made from a collection of cardboard box infographics. Collected around Amsterdam.

 
 
 
 
 

4:1 is the result of an experiment in reducing language to shared symbolic imagery. Four individuals of different nationalities were asked to compile narrative 'story lines' with a given set of 90 symbols. Each language uses a different alphabet or ideogrammatic system: simplified Chinese, Russian (Cyrillic), Italian (Roman), Hebrew (Hebraic). (In the case of Hebrew, pages are read left to right.)

The set of given symbols was derived from commonly used words or concepts in an archetypical (international) student house hold.

Each language remains illegible to the other individuals. The pictograms thus form a bridge between languages allowing for an intuitive understanding of the each narrative.

Six lessons to provide you with a 'vocabulary' of papers.

This idea is two-fold: firstly it should give you an insight on the realm of paper stocks and their respective effects, through the practice of Origami folding, and writing, which represents two of many ways one interacts with paper taking into account its characteristics and properties.

I have chosen a broad variety of paper for this specific course to bring about your awareness as to the differences, similarities, qualities and characteristics of each stock.

Secondly, over the course of the lessons, your sensitivity to paper should have grown to a point where you will be able to recognize a paper's qualities and judge its abilities. Ideally, you should come away from this course with a new sensitivity to paper and a set of guidelines with which you can approach future ideas concerning paper use.

This experiment was done on the occasion of a class held by Will Holder (goodwill) in which the students were asked to learn a 'language' and then in turn teach it to Will.
Specific attributes of Bodoni BT Roman.
Text taken from Stephenson Blake & Company specimen book, Printing Types, 1924. The presentation of the type on this page derives from the amount of letters given on a single Zip-a-Tone Lettraset sheet of Bodoni BT weights. For example once all lower case a's of Bodoni BT Book are used, another weight replaces them.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Photo series about motivations for coming to the Rietveld. I asked several people to answer the question 'why did you come to the Rietveld?' the resulting answers where anonymously projected over spaces in the Rietveld temporary building on Oldenbarneveld Straat.

In collaboration with photographer Adam Etmanski
 
 
 
Posters for an assignment given by Gerard Unger. The breif was to create a 'Rietveld Manifesto' and that we should use our own font.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
On-going project of collected 'backs' of things. An attempt to shed light on the hidden, less visible aspects of our world.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

THE NOISE was created for a 'European Newspaper' project.

The result was a music themed newspaper that illustrated and mapped the tour routes of several bands and performers across europe along with interviews and fragements of text about the bands.
 
 
 
 

UNWRITTEN SPEACH
A poster made as part of a 'visual correspondence' between myself and fellow designer Christopher Valentini Gabriel.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

A self initiated poster project made out of a collection of small paper ads for african witchdoctors and healers, all received in the mail box in the Bijlmer area of Amsterdam.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Sketch for a series of 'Rules' posters.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

An experiment in creating a new measurment system based on 40000 meter reels of film. I calculated distances in europe according to how many films it would take to fill up the travel time.

An assigment by Experimental Jetset.

Posters illustrating three quotes by Marshal McLuhan.

 
 
 
 
 

Theme based postcard series made in collaboration with Joseph Miceli.
A series of photographs produced for an assignment given to create a five image sequence.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Poster illustrating that ordinary things are fascinating... after you've taken them apart of course.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Posters for a theatrical installation by Idan Hayosh.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Experiments in postcard design.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Logo made for a Fashion Market Convention in Vilnius, Lithuania.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Manual experiments in typographic form.
 

 
 
 
 
 
A one-off poster made using letterpress and stenil techniques.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
100 hand-bound pocket-sized books using found paper samples.

 
 
 
 
 
Poster made for the word 'Positive'. The letters were cut out and glued to the poster. Then the poster was placed on a busy street at night, whith black acrylic paint placed before the poster at the distance mesuring the radius of the car tire. After the cars have run over the paint and almost completely covered the poster in black paint, the letter were peeled off revealing the word.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
A small hand-bound book with tv static images and photographs of violence is placed inside another book which has all pages glued together. The small book represents the tv. But in this case the real book can not be opened since all the pages are glued together and the small one representing the tv can be browsed through. A comment on tv violence imagery that can not be paused to realize and anderstand.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Pen and ink drawings.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Statement poster made using a hand-made map of alleys of the city of Richmond, VA.
One out of four hand-printed maps on fabric.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Two books representing the route from home to school. The first is a photographic representation and the second a typographic interpretation. Hand-made using thick cardboard.
 

 
 
 
 
 
Experimental book formats.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Assignment to create a toy given by John Malinoski during the Experimental Imaging class.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Positivity...