• Edited and designed by Björn Giesecke and Otso Peräsaari
• 12.5 x 15.8 cm, 208 pages, English, 11 color and black & white plates, 14 different paper stocks
• co-published with EKA GD MA, Tallinn
• ISBN 978-3-69312-000-2
• €24,00 preorder

Who’s That Talking in the Library? documents the first 357 books in what started to become the library of the Masters Program in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn (EKA GD MA). Asking students, teaching staff, critics and everyone passing through the program to add a book to the evolving library, 38 supplementary texts give a reason why a book is in the library.

With texts by Else Lagerspetz, Sandra Nuut, Rosen Eveleigh, Pärtel Eelmere, Laura Pappa, Ott Kagovere, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Bart de Baets, Paula Buškevica, Otso Peräsaari, Björn Giesecke, Lieven Lahaye, Patrick Zavadskis, Carlo Canún, Santiago da Silva, Miriam Humm, Sara Kaaman, Linnéa Bake (Soft Power), Åbäke, Linda van Deursen, Louise Borinski, Julia Novitch, Rita Davis, Jungmyung Lee, Laura Merendi, Claudia Doms, Katarina Sarap, Inga Zimprich, Kaisa Lassinaro, and Meg Miller.

• 72.2 × 102.2 cm, offset printed at Gallery Print, Berlin
• €20 add to cart

Reproduction of page 143 from Von Gutenberg bis Rotaprint, Ernst Jaster (1954). As part of a workshop about offset printing with MA students from the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn.

By purchasing, you support an upcoming publication about the Rotaprint printing machines and a selection of real printing jobs re-printed with original printing plates from the archive of a local offset printer in Berlin Wedding, kept for 30-plus years in case a client might come back. Now used one last time before being recycled.

• Tallinn/Berlin, 128 pages, 9.6 × 14.8 cm, 97 copies, English
• sold out
• Available at Printed Matter (US)

Interjection is a collection of various sorts of texts, observations, ideas, quotes, lyrics revolving around and trying to define a practice. Written, designed and printed by Björn Giesecke. Each dust jacket shows changing silver foil embossings from the archive of the bookbinding workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn.

“I chose this word headlining the following texts as I thought about the form of an insert, an errata, an injection point—interjection sounds familiarly close. A word picked up while browsing the library of the master’s program in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. In the midst of improvised structures is a publication in small dimensions turned on its head, I’m pulling out to read …”