Björn Giesecke is a designer collaborating with artists, architects, curators, institutions, printers, and friends on books, websites, identities, typefaces, posters, exhibitions, and other works.
Worked with
Bauhaus Museum (Dessau),
Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach),
Distanz Verlag (Berlin),
Florian Idenburg/SO-IL (New York),
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin),
James Simon Galerie (Berlin),
MARKK (Hamburg),
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, (Brussels),
Montez Press (London, Hamburg),
Movement Research (New York),
Romain Odin Lepoutre (Dorset, Berlin),
Textem Verlag (Hamburg)
Universität der Künste (Berlin)
Urban Fragment Observatory (Berlin),
Urbonas Studio (Cambridge),
Zero Point (Berlin)
EKA GD MA Tallinn, 2020–2022
DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, 2019
NODE Berlin Oslo, 2018–2019
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, 2016–2017
Universität der Künste Berlin, 2014–2019
Universität Rostock, 2009–2013
typefacecatalogue
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temporary bookshop, 1.–16.9.2023
MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
15:00–19:00
closing event SAT 16.9. 18:00
Gerichtstr. 45 (backyard),
13347 Berlin
Affinity Benches and Codex Boxes by Muebles Manuel, Photography by Kristin Krause
Title graphics for a play by actor Tomasz Robak, 2023
Diplomas for the Graphic Design Master’s Program at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 2023
Poster for Visiting Abriss, 2023
Series of 16 A1 posters for Urban Fragment Observatory, Berlin
Last Edit Was Seconds Ago, Estonian Academy of Arts, 2022
edited by Marge Monko
24 × 32 cm, 168 pp., ISBN: 9789916619735
Website for Possible Scenarios, the practice of Romain Odin Lepoutre, 2022
Coronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic times, Ewa Majewska, DISTANZ, 2022
11 × 16 cm, 192 pp., ISBN: 9783954765232
Designed with Sean Yendrys
Link: Distanz
Interjection, 2022
written, designed, and printed in Tallinn, EE
9.6 × 14.8 cm, 128 pp.
Available at Printed Matter, New York
Drawing for Babyface Typeface
Ex Libris for EKA GD MA, with Otso Peräsaari
Readings for Dog-Ears
2023.1.22 Montez Press Radio at Index Art Book Fair, Mexico City, MX
2022.6.4 oH Radio at Silence After Early Hours, Tallinn, EE
2021.11.24 oH Radio at Lugemik Bookshop, Tallinn, EE [listen]
2021.8.19 Ordrupgaard Museum, Charlottenlund, DK
Produced by Paula Buškevica
Website for Design & Computation. A new inter-university, interdisciplinary, research-oriented masters programme in cooperation between the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technical University Berlin, with Lucas Liccini
Menu cards for EKA GD MA dinner, with Otso Peräsaari
Invitation written on window front of ONN, Tallinn
Pumpkin punch and a liveset by Tobias Textor
Drawing instruction for an upcoming typeface
Offset printing techniques on Rotaprint 36K/45K with a local printshop in Wedding, Berlin
Website for Wasserschloss Quilow. One of the few remaining houses from the Renaissance period in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern opened its doors in 2020 after extensive renovation and restoration work, with JMMP
The bilingual catalog IN THE SHADOW OF VENUS: LISA REIHANA & PACIFIC TAONGA is accompanying the correspondent exhibition at MARKK Hamburg. It picks up on the parallel narrative of the space and it portrays Lisa Reihana’s work as well as the 20 objects displayed, with NLF-Team
Link: MARKK-Hamburg
Supplements to the library of EKA GD MA, with Otso Peräsaari
Poster for a lecture by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey at EKA, Tallinn
