Speaker Joost Grootens

Joost Grootens is a graphic designer, educator and researcher. Based in Amsterdam (NL) and Biel/Bienne (CH), his studio SJG designs books, maps, typefaces, spatial installations and digital information environments for publishers like Lars Müller Publishers, nai010 publishers, Phaidon press; educational and research institutes like ETH Zürich, Future Cities Laboratory Singapore, TU Munich; and museums like Astrup Fearnley Museet Oslo, Serpentine Galleries London, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven. SJG won numerous prizes for their designs. Among them the Golden Letter and two gold medals in the Best Book Design from all over the World competition, and twice the Dutch Design Award for Graphic Design.

Joost is Professor of Artistic Research in Visual Design at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, and also a tutor at the Master Communication, Design and Publishing of the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Urbino.

Joost studied architectural design at Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate at Leiden University. His research addresses the transformation of the fields and practices of graphic design and mapmaking resulting from technological changes in tools to record, create, edit, produce and disseminate visual information.