Joost grootens biography of mahatma

Joost Grootens is a graphic designer, educator and researcher.

Joost grootens biography of mahatma

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 Fearnly 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. A monograph about SJG’s work titled I swear I use no art at all was published by 010 Publishers in 2010.

He is Professor of Artistic Research in Visual Design at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, and has a teaching position at the Master Editorial Design of the Istituto Superiore per le