Project Development – ITP Fall 23

Inking (2)

I wrote the strip in Hebrew and wanted it to stay this way because most things don’t translate as well as I wanted. I will try to make an English version later on but I’ll use this post to explain the events described in each illustration.

I first arrived in Italy on the first day of the pandemic on February 21st of 2020. My semester in Bolzano was supposed to start in early March so I thought it would be nice to travel through Venice, I arrived there in a very crowded airplane not knowing that I’m arriving for the first day of the famous Venice Carnival.

Unibz which is the abbreviation for “University of Bolzano-Bozen” is located in the center of the beautiful old city of Bolzano- Bozen, between the lively green and snowy mountains of Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

I found it interesting to learn some Italian and possibly get to know this small town but it hasn’t even been two weeks until Covid found it’s way in and immediately right over night all the shops closed and I never saw these people ever again.

Lines starting to form outside the “SPAR” supermarkets in Bolzano and when the

Felix, Max and Me, crossing the border with Germany at night

Home with the cows (not JUST cows but they were there)

Burgasse 18– the place where everything happened.

Final

PDF Here

Typography

Hand drawn typography for the title:

Hand drawn typeface versus “Narkis Block” Hebrew font.
More about “Narkis” font which is a classic font that is widely used in the Israeli media and literature publications.

I eventually decided to with Allenby typeface

I also tried adding border lines to the bouding boxes or entire page but then decided it’s best leave it off. I think when the coloring is so heavy it’s good to leave some air between the blocks of images.