Studio Thomas Spallek
Mercedesstraße 11, 40470 Düsseldorf
R. Joaquim António de Aguiar 230, 4300-096 Porto
About
Studio Thomas Spallek is an independent design studio based between Germany and Portugal. It’s work involves multiple forms and practices such as typography, type design, ephemera, editing as well as exhibition projects. 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 formulates 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. Recent projects include: Design for German Pavilion 2022, web design Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; various catalogues with Sies + Höke, Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs; 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, Berlin; graphic identity, exhibition design and various catalogues for Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; graphic identity for the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Collaborators
Arts of the Working Class
Camille Henrot
Distanz Verlag
Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
Galerie Max Mayer
Garagem Sul
German Pavilion 2022
Goethe Institut L.A.
Hatje Cantz
John Morgan Studio
Julia Stoschek Foundation
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Kestner Gesellschaft
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
Kunstsammlung NRW K20
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Langen Foundation
Lehmann+Silva
Lisson Gallery
Lucas Hirsch Galerie
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Moholy-Nagy Foundation
Museum Ludwig
Sammlung Philara
Schinkel Pavillon
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Tanzhaus NRW
Walter Benjamin Archive
Wormhole Newspaper
Studio Thomas Spallek
Mercedesstraße 11, 40470 Düsseldorf
R. Joaquim António de Aguiar 230, 4300-096 Porto
Collaborators
Arts of the Working Class
Camille Henrot
Distanz Verlag
Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
Galerie Max Mayer
Garagem Sul
German Pavilion 2022
Goethe Institut L.A.
Hatje Cantz
John Morgan Studio
Julia Stoschek Foundation
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Kestner Gesellschaft
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
Kunstsammlung NRW K20
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Langen Foundation
Lehmann+Silva
Lisson Gallery
Lucas Hirsch Galerie
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Moholy-Nagy Foundation
Museum Ludwig
Sammlung Philara
Schinkel Pavillon
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Tanzhaus NRW
Walter Benjamin Archive
Wormhole Newspaper
About
Studio Thomas Spallek is an independent design studio based between Germany and Portugal. It’s work involves multiple forms and practices such as typography, type design, ephemera, editing as well as exhibition projects. 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 formulates 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. Recent projects include: Design for German Pavilion 2022, web design Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; various catalogues with Sies + Höke, Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs; 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, Berlin; graphic identity, exhibition design and various catalogues for Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; graphic identity for the Kunstverein in Hamburg.