GERMAN

Holger Jacobs

STUDENT YEARS

8

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Learn the basics of typography, punctuation and printing. Experiment and don’t rush into producing ‘professional’-looking work. If you are committed, hard-working and love what you do, things will happen + Never follow a particular style just because it seems popular

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

German potato pancakes

YOUR MOST VALUED POSSESSION THEN

My sketchbooks – I was pretty poor and can’t remember owning anything else of real value

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YEAR OF PROJECT

1997

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated

COLLEGE

Royal College of Art, London (United Kingdom)

TUTOR(S) ...

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