Julia Born, Graphic Designer

Ms. Born is a Swiss designer living in Amsterdam. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1996 to 2000 receiving a diploma. She then worked on several projects and publications between Switzerland and The Netherlands, 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; Metropolis M – magazine on Contemporary Art. Apart from commissioned work she has collaborated with other designers and artists, such as fashion designer JOFF (A Red Skirt, 2003; One To One, 2007), or performer Alexandra Bachzetsis (Secret Instructions, 2005). Work of her was shown in the exhibitions Graphic Design in the White Cube, Brno 2006; Dutch Resource, Chaumont 2005; Handmade, Postercollection Museum für Gestaltung Zürich 2005; Cool School, Gallery of Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague 2005; Mark, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2004; Invitation No. 75, SMBA, Amsterdam 2003. In 2002 she was a tutor graphic design at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne/CH. She has taught graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie since 2003, and in 2007 she was a project tutor at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. From 2003 to 2007 she was a jury member for The most beautiful Swiss books. She was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale in 2008.