Julia Born, Graphic Designer

Ms. Born is a Swiss designer living in Amsterdam. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and after receiving a diploma in 2000, she started her own practice in Amsterdam. She worked on several projects and publications for clients such as the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern; Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; and TNT Post. From 2005 to 2008 she was art director of Metropolis M, the Dutch magazine on contemporary art. Apart from commissioned work she has collaborated with other designers and artists on investigative projects, including fashion designer JOFF and performance artist Alexandra Bachzetsis. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. She has been a professor of graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie since 2003. From 2003 to 2007 she was a jury member for The most beautiful Swiss books. Among other awards she won the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 2008 and the Inform Award for Conceptual Design, for which she conceived her first solo exhibition, Title of the Show, in Leipzig. She was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2008.