Björn Giesecke

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

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, photo by Julie De Meester

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

A Brief History of Bubble Letters for Source Type

Vanity Initials in Iʼm Serious, Iʼm Funny, designed with Otso Peräsaari

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

Interjection, 128 pages, 96 × 148 mm, 2022

Interjection at Index Art Book Fair, MX

The Moving Couch Cinema #3: Whatʼs Opera Doc?

Coronafuga, Ewa Majewska, designed with Sean Yendrys

Movement Research Performance Journal #58/59, designed with Sean Yendrys

Protocol 10

title graphics for Tomasz Robak

DRAMA. The Retrospective Reader

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

Visiting Abriss, for Urban Fragment Observatory

Website for Possible Scenarios

EKA GD MA Library Stamp 20–22, with Otso Peräsaari

Building a double-sided shelf for the library of EKA GD MA, with Otso Peräsaari

Last Edit Was Seconds Ago

questioning reproduction
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]

Artwork for Wardrobe’s single New Malaise

Artwork for Wardrobe’s single Common Touch

Björn Giesecke is a Berlin-based designer collaborating with artists, architects, curators, institutions, printers, and friends on books, websites, identities, typefaces, posters, exhibitions, and other works.

In 2023, the studio ran the temporary bookshop [imagine: a bookshop] 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.

Who’s That Talking in the Library?, edited by Björn Giesecke and Otso Peräsaari
Fred Lonidier’s Casual Photography, edited by Nilo Goldfarb. Nauener Platz
Visual Report for Possible Scenarios first built house
Drama, an interpretation of Rogers (Boston)

2025 EKA GD MA Graduation Jury, Tallinn
2024 BOM DIA Editorial Board, Berlin
2023 [imagine: a bookshop], Berlin
2023 Info on Books, Berlin
2019 DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
2018–2019 NODE Berlin Oslo

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 °
2024 Earth’s Widening Girth (And Other Bereavements), Cora Wöllenstein
2023 Movement Research Performance Journal #58/59, edited by Joshua Lubin-Levy, John Arthur Peetz. Movement Research °
2023 Coronafuga, Ewa Majewska, edited by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich, Viktor Neumann. Distanz Verlag °
2022 Last Edit Was Seconds Ago, edited by Marge Monko. EKA
2022 Interjection. self-published (printedmatter.org)
2022 DRAMA. The Retrospective Reader
2021 Reisestipendien 2021: Karimah Ashadu, CONNY, Nina Kuttler, Fion Pellacini, Nina Zeljković. Textem *
2020 In Pursuit of Venus, Lisa Reihana. MARKK Hamburg (with NLF-Team)
2018 Protocol Magazine 10

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

2024 Estonian Academy of Arts, Berlin DE
2023 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
2022 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn EE

Studio Björn Giesecke

Gerichtstraße 45, Hof links
13347 Berlin

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

Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Bonner Kunstverein
Cora Wöllenstein
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Distanz
Freie Universität Berlin
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
James Simon Galerie
Laurens Maria Bauer
les presses du réel
MARKK Hamburg
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods
Montez Press
Movement Research New York
Nauener Platz
NLF-Team
Otso Peräsaari
Possible Scenarios
Regina Holzkamp
Source Type
Tell A Vision
Textem Verlag
Tomasz Robak
Universität der Künste Berlin
Urban Fragment Observatory
Wardrobe
Xiaopei He/anorak

* with JMMP – Julian Mader Max Prediger
° with Sean Yendrys

Who’s That talking in the Library?
Tallinn/Berlin, 2025, 192 pages, 12.5 x 16 cm, 400 copies, English

“Who’s That Talking in the Library?” documents the first 358 books in what started to become the library of the Masters Program in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn (EKA GD MA). Asking students, teaching staff, critics and everyone passing through the program to add a book to the library, 38 supplementary texts give a reason why a book is in the library. The inventory plots the depth of knowledge that influences contemporary graphic design production and ideas.

Compiled, edited and designed by Björn Giesecke and Otso Peräsaari. Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts. The book is printed with Druckerei Gruß in Berlin, and bound at Reinhart & Wasser in Berlin. The book is available at the EKA GD MA library, and will be distributed to libraries in Estonia, Germany and abroad.

INTERJECTION by Björn Giesecke
Tallinn/Berlin, 2022, 128 pages, 9.6 x 14.8 cm, 97 copies, English
€20
Order (EU)
Available at Printed Matter (US)

Interjection is a collection of various sorts of texts, observations, ideas, quotes, lyrics revolving around and trying to define a practice. Written, designed and printed by Björn Giesecke. Each dust jacket shows changing silver foil embossings from the archive of the bookbinding workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn.

“I chose this word headlining the following texts as I thought about the form of an insert, an errata, an injection point—interjection sounds familiarly close. A word picked up while browsing the library of the master’s program in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. In the midst of improvised structures is a publication in small dimensions turned on its head, I’m pulling out to read …”