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The Sense of Making
Navn
Anne Marie Tarrasson Hove
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Design og Visuel Interaktion
Program
Graphic Communication Design
År
2025
What happens when you stop trying to control every part of a design process? When you stop polishing, stop perfecting, and allow the body and materials to take the lead?
The Sense of Making is a process-led exploration of analog printmaking, grounded in physical presence, intuition, and the unpredictable rhythm of hands-on techniques. Through letterpress and silkscreen, I worked without fixed outcomes, letting ink, paper, and resistance shape the direction. The body, not the screen, set the pace and formed the prints.
I followed a set of self-defined principles: keep everything that’s made, document the process as it unfolds, trust my body and intuition, and break away from the conventional use of the techniques. The workshop was not just a place to produce, but a space to reflect, experiment, and respond in real time. The prints became visual records of those discoveries, a collection of repetitions, hesitations, and small surprises, each carrying the texture of thought as it was unfolding. This approach draws from Camilla Groth’s theory of material thinking, where understanding emerges not through planning, but through the body’s interaction with materials, a kind of knowledge that is felt rather than spoken.
Over time, I had become increasingly distanced from the physical aspects of design. Most of my work took place on screen, shaped by precision, speed, and endless revision. In contrast, I found myself drawn to slower, tactile methods that required presence and material sensitivity. I wanted to reintroduce tactility, imperfection, and unpredictability into the process, to work in a way where decisions are shaped by tools, surfaces, and the body’s interaction with materials.
The final result is a series of printed publications. Each focuses on a specific print method and is accompanied by selected texts that mirror the experience of working by hand, reflecting on touch, intuition, and embodied ways of knowing. Weaving Letters, centered on letterpress, is paired with Tactile Sensibility by Anni Albers. A Mark, A Trace, the silkscreen book, sits alongside excerpts from Corita Kent’s Learning by Heart.
Together, the prints and texts invite reflection on slowness, imperfection, and the deep connection between thinking and making, where creativity unfolds not only in the mind, but through the body’s direct encounter with material. The books are made to be handled: to be read through touch as much as through language, moving through the textures, imperfections, and rhythms of making.
The Sense of Making is a way of thinking through doing and treat the act of making as a conversation between body and material. One that invites you to slow down, to look closely, and to make sense through your hands.
A Mark, A Trace - Silkscreen with Corita Kent
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Weaving Letters - Letterpress with Anni Albers
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