Björn Giesecke

Workshop with MA students from the Estonian Academy of Arts, comparing sheets after pouring additional silver into the ink tower.
Printed mixing Pantone 8402, 8403, 8404 and 10279 all together, at Gallery Print on a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102-5-LX. Photo by Sean Yendrys

Über Brücken Bridging, edited by Lisa Klosterkötter, Elena Malzew,
published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Designed with Hanna Osen

Über Brücken Bridging, edited by Lisa Klosterkötter, Elena Malzew, published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Designed with Hanna Osen

Minimum World, P. Staff, published by Bonner Kunstverein and Bierke. Designed with Sean Yendrys

Do Everything with Love, Do Nothing by Force or High Noon, Sofia Defino Leiby,
published by Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Institut für moderne Kunst

Proofs of Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. Designed with Sean Yendrys

Proofs of Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods.
Designed with Sean Yendrys. Photography by Cora Schröer.

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele.
Designed with Sean Yendrys.

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods,
edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele.
Designed with Sean Yendrys. Photography by Julie De Meester.

126 individual die-cut bookmarks for [imagine: a bookshop]

A Brief History of Bubble Letters for Source Type

Vanity Initials in Iʼm Serious, Iʼm Funny. Designed with Otso Peräsaari

proofing sheets for Fred Lonidierʼs Casual Photography printed with Thilo Brendel at BBK, Berlin

Spot-welded metal plate, sanded flat and used as an embossing plate for manual hot foil stamping on reclaimed supermarket wrapping paper for the dust jacket of Interjection, 2022

Interjection, 128 pages, 96 × 148 mm, 2022

Interjection at Index Art Book Fair, MX

The Moving Couch Cinema #3: Whatʼs Opera Doc?

Earth’s Widening Girth (And Other Bereavements), Cora Wöllenstein.
Designed with Janis Gildein

Coronafuga, Ewa Majewska. Designed with Sean Yendrys

Movement Research Performance Journal 58/59, Summer/Fall 2023, edited by Joshua Lubin-Levy, John Arthur Peetz. Designed with Sean Yendrys

Protocol 10

Title graphics for Tomasz Robak

Title graphics for Tomasz Robakʼs Shakespeare Ultras

DRAMA. The Retrospective Reader, edited by Björn Giesecke

Diploma Supplement, for the graduating year 2023 MA in Graphic Design
at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn

Diploma Supplement, for the graduating year 2023 MA in Graphic Design
at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn

Poster series for Visiting Abriss by Urban Fragment Observatory

Title graphics for Visiting Abriss by Urban Fragment Observatory.
Photography by Sebastian Díaz de León

Website for Romain Odin Lepoutre, romainodin.com

Hi everyone, I was thinking …. Handwriting with kefir on ONN, Tallinn window front, 2020.

EKA GD MA Library Stamp 20–22. Designed with Otso Peräsaari

Double-sided shelf for the library of EKA GD MA, built with Otso Peräsaari

questioning production
Paul Outerbridge, Jr. Men’s Scarves, 1924

[imagine: a bookshop], temporary bookshop in our studio. Furniture by Manuel Raeder. Photo by Kristin Krause.

[imagine: a bookshop], hosting events and discussions in the studio backyard

Visuals for Wardrobe’s single New Malaise

Visuals for Wardrobe’s single Common Touch

Björn Giesecke is an independent graphic designer based in Berlin. He collaborates closely with artists, architects, curators, institutions, publishers, and friends on books, identities, typefaces, posters, exhibitions, websites, and other works. He founded Rara Publications in 2025. In 2023, he ran the temporary bookshop [imagine: a bookshop] from his Berlin studio, focusing on publications which are hard to get, without circulation or representation through a bookshop or gallery, i.e. small print run, no isbns, artist books. Further appearances: MissRead, Die Epilog, Silent Green. He initiated and ran the space DRAMA in the hallway of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn from 2021–22.

Visual Report for Possible Scenarios first built house, edited by Sarah Kimmich, Romain Odin Lepoutre, Björn Giesecke. M BOOKS
Who’s That Talking in the Library?, edited by Björn Giesecke, Otso Peräsaari. Rara Publications
Glücksfütterung, Olga Monina, edited by Elena Malzew. BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
Fred Lonidier’s Casual Photography, edited by Nilo Goldfarb. Nauener Platz
BG Drama, an interpretation of Rogers (Boston)

2025 Über Brücken Bridging, edited by Lisa Klosterkötter, Elena Malzew. BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Designed with Hanna Osen
2025 Do Everything with Love, Do Nothing by Force or High Noon, Sofia Defino Leiby. Kunstverein Nürnberg, Institut für moderne Kunst
2025 Minimum World, P. Staff. Bonner Kunstverein, Bierke. Designed with Sean Yendrys
2024 Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele. les presses du réel. Designed with Sean Yendrys
2024 Earth’s Widening Girth (And Other Bereavements), Cora Wöllenstein. Designed with Janis Gildein
2023 Movement Research Performance Journal #58/59, edited by Joshua Lubin-Levy, John Arthur Peetz. Movement Research. Designed with Sean Yendrys
2023 Coronafuga, Ewa Majewska, edited by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich, Viktor Neumann. Distanz. Designed with Sean Yendrys
2022 Last Edit Was Seconds Ago, edited by Marge Monko. EKA. Designed with Alejandro Bellón Ample
2022 Interjection, edited by Björn Giesecke. self-published (printedmatter.org)
2022 DRAMA. The Retrospective Reader
2021 Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Reisestipendien 2021: Karimah Ashadu, CONNY, Nina Kuttler, Fion Pellacini, Nina Zeljković. Textem. Designed with Max Prediger
2020 In Pursuit of Venus, Lisa Reihana. MARKK Hamburg. Designed with NLF-Team

2024 Will L Ever Read This?, in: Publishing Anecdotes, edited by Roman Karrer. Air Berlin Alexanderplatz
2024 A Brief History of Bubble Letters, edited by Meg Miller, Ben Schwartz. Source Type
2022 Default. No Frills, in: Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent, edited by Ingo Offermanns. Valiz
2022 Read / Write / Edit History, in: Going Somewhere, edited by Lieven Lahaye. EKA GD MA

EKA GD MA Tallinn, MA
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Universität der Künste Berlin, BA
Universität Rostock, BA

2025–2026 Visiting teacher, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn EE
2024–2025 Invited critic, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn EE
2023 byob invites: A symposium on publishing, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
2023–2024 Visiting teacher, Estonian Academy of Arts Stand-In School, Berlin DE
2022 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn EE

Björn Giesecke studio

Gerichtstraße 45, Hof links
13347 Berlin

+49 (0)176 613 49 222
bjoerngiesecke@gmail.com
@bjoerngiesecke

Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Bierke
Bonner Kunstverein
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
Cora Wöllenstein
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Distanz
Dora Budor
Elena Malzew
Freie Universität Berlin
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
James Simon Galerie
JMMP Julian Mader Max Prediger
Kunstverein Nürnberg
les presses du réel
Lisa Klosterkötter
MARKK Hamburg
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods
Movement Research New York
Nauener Platz
Otso Peräsaari
P. Staff
Possible Scenarios
Regina Holzkamp
Sean Yendrys
Sofia Defino Leiby
Source Type
Tell A Vision
Tomasz Robak
Universität der Künste Berlin
Urban Fragment Observatory
Wardrobe
Xiaopei He/anorak

Workshop with EKA GD MA students in Berlin

20.03.2026 Workshop with students from the masters program in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn about a local offset printer and his archive of printing plates in Berlin. Thank you Chloé, Ethan, Selena, Jordy, Sunny, Agathe, Villem, Alina, Anna and Michael. Photo by Agathe Mathel.

on press Whos that talking in the Library?

11.01.2026 Long time in the making and now at the printers: Who’s that talking in the Library? edited by Björn Giesecke and Otso Peräsaari, forthcoming with Rara Publications.

05.06.2025 I’ve been part of the graduation jury of EKA GD MA year 2025 at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Congratulations Fatima-Ezzahra, Hanafi, Rok, Linnea, Laura, João, Karthik, Anna, Archil.

08.12.2023 Talking about the ideas behind hosting [imagine: a bookshop], the temporary bookshop in our studio, related statistics from that time and a bit about studio work at byob invites: A symposium on publishing with abc – art books in China, Björn Giesecke, Kristina Stallvik and Ott Metusala at Rietveld Academie. Thank you Susu, Jordi and Augustinas.

2023 Running the temporary bookshop [imagine: a bookshop] and hosting a bar, party, cinema, talks in our studio in Berlin.

19.01.2023 Interjection at Info on Books by Café Babette

27.11.2022 In Tallinn for a short visit to continue work on the EKA GD MA library’s index for Who’s that talking in the Library?

16.07.2022 Moved the studio to Gerichtstraße in Berlin, a former glazier’s workshop.

28.09.2020 An article about my graphic design practice and approach to printing techniques, covered by Ruby Boddington for It’s Nice That.

09.2019 Organized a month-long study visit at Druckerei zu Altenburg, rotating through the entire production line from pre-press to printing to bookbinding. Gathered technical production notes, paper samples, and production waste paper for future reference and projects. Thank you Serge, Peer-Philipp, Olaf and everyone at DZA.

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