Kajsa Ståhl, UK (2024)
Kajsa Ståhl is a London-based graphic designer specialising in collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects that involve archives, collections, interviews, and travel and result in books, posters, catalogues, billboards, websites, identities, exhibitions...
Read full biographyKajsa Ståhl is a London-based graphic designer specialising in collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects that involve archives, collections, interviews, and travel and result in books, posters, catalogues, billboards, websites, identities, exhibitions and films. Her deft treatment of materials, colours, words, fonts and sequence results in unique and expressive productions. She is one fourth of the graphic design collective Åbäke, founded in 2000, and one fourth of the publishing house Dent—De—Leone, founded in 2007. Her early projects involved collaborations with architects, writers, musicians, fashion designers and curators. She taught at the Royal College of Art, London (2004–2010) and took part in several workshops throughout Europe (Sandberg, HDK, Konstfack etc.). Most recently, she was a member of the jury for “The most beautiful swiss books” (2023). Clients and collaborators include the JB Blunk Estate, Nottingham Contemporary, Whitechapel Gallery, Linder, Anne Hardy, Martino Gamper, Francis Upritchard, Max Lamb, Maison Kitsuné and more.
Publications
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice: The Reader
(2009)
- Magnus Ericsson,
- Sara Teleman,
- Martin Frostner,
- Jonas Williamsson,
- Zak Kyes
Stenberg Press
What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?
The Transdisciplinary Studio
(2012)
- Alex Coles
Stenberg Press
We have entered a post-post-studio age, and find ourselves with a new studio model: the transdisciplinary. Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art, and design.
Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the sixties
(2015)
- Rick Poynor
Yale University Press
Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, which accompanies the Barbican exhibition of the same title, presents an authoritative overview of the design work produced in this period, tracing how and why British graphic design has developed in the way it has.
Exhibitions
Crafting Narratives
2014
Craft Council, London
Memory Palace
2013
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Suzuki Åffice
2010
Clear Gallery, Tokyo
Education
Visiting lecturer, staff
- Postgraduate
2004 – 2011
- Royal College of Art (Uk)
Design without labels elective.
Workshops
- Postgraduate
- Sandberg (Netherlands)
Workshops
- Postgraduate
- Konstfack (Sweden)
Workshops
- Postgraduate
- Architectural Association (UK)
Lectures
Idn, My favourite Conference
(2004)
- Singapore, Singapore
Sexymachinery No.13, The End
(2007)
- Serpentine Gallery, Uk
Interview Marathon with Hans-Ulrich Obrist
(2006)
- Serpentine Gallery, Uk
Design Stafetten
(2007)
- Svensk Form, Sweden