Using Zuckerschrift to make teeth talk
Franziska Charlotte Stroh
Student
Franziska Charlotte Stroh Academic staff
Thomas Kronbichler Giacomo Festi Andreas Trenker Course
What’s a Tool? Program
BA Major Design Semester
2025/26 SS This project explores the tool Zuckerschrift as both material and metaphor. The collages of printed smiles, with passive-aggressive phrases written onto the teeth using Zuckerschrift, make teeth talk. The work engages directly with the concept of sugarcoating, where pleasant appearances conceal harsher thoughts. Teeth become a surface of contradiction, where friendly smiles are paired with direct, unkind messages. Through this approach, what is usually suppressed is made visible.
A project made in the course
What’s a Tool?
Does the tool change the hand that uses it? Students explored several tools to build design projects, documenting their process with vertical video. Each video shows one tool’s arc: from idea finding to experiment, design, and explanation. Creative tools shape what we create.
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