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Studio Thomas Spallek is an independent design studio based between Düsseldorf and Porto. It’s work involves multiple forms and practices such as typography, type design, ephemera, editing as well as exhibition projects. The studios’ special love belongs to book design and typeface. Therefore it works in dialogue with artists, cultural institutions and galleries to translate artistic and curatorial work into the printed page. The studio engages with textual and visual material through dedicating the use of typography to the consequent interplay between form and content. Through delving deep into it’s research-based approach on type designers and typefaces the studio formulate it’s visual ideas by exploring the historical contexts, visual retorics as well as artistic and functional attributes of fonts that appeared throughout time. Alongside commissioned work, Studio Thomas Spallek continuously collaborates on investigative projects with other designers, artists and art theorists as well as pursuing personal projects. Since 2016 Thomas Spallek attends the typography class of Prof. John Morgan at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Recent projects include: web design for German Pavilion and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; book design with Sies + Höke, Sigmar Pollke. Road Trip through the Middle East; graphic design and artistic collaboration with Bik Van der Pol for the exhibition Mama, what is nature really? at the Kayser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld; ephemera for Schinkel Pavillon; graphic identity, exhibition design and various catalogues for Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; editorial design for Arts of the Working Class.