Janneke Janssen

The project was developed in the context of a search reading test for student participants in which they had to find the answer to different questions or tasks. The magazines contain a diversity of typographic text navigation (readers) and index-typography (index booklets) on a micro-, meso- and macro level. Based on previous test results, the design of the four magazines (containing four different readers and four different index booklets), the questions and the instruction forms were developed. Conventional and unconventional index-typography is designed to connect the indexes with other typographic cues throughout the magazine’s content for navigational aid. The diversity of texts and indexes are used for specific search tasks. This methodological approach may show improvement in the data collection connected to the search reading tasks and design. The internet was used as an archival playground for re-posting discussions and making new connections in narratives for the content of the magazines. The relationship between the landscape and the beauty or distraction of functional artefacts is re-ensembled.