Location: Aula, MOP
Moderation: Prof.in Ulrike Brückner

Since 2019, graphic designer, book designer, and publisher Anja Lutz has been running the A—Z project space on Berlin’s Torstraße. After six years of presenting, researching, and exploring experimental graphic design, the book “On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z—∞” was published in 2025. It not only documents exhibitions, workshops, discussions, and community-building activities, but also invites 36 international designers—including April Greiman, Luna Maurer, Katharina Nejdl, Richard Niessen, John Walters, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Golnar Kat Rahmani—to envision the future of graphic design through original contributions.

Anja Lutz describes her working method as “practical exploration of alternative approaches to thinking and design in graphic design” and will offer insights into her practice during her talk: the concepts behind the exhibitions at A—Z, the collaboration with the guests, creative perspectives on the future of graphic design, and the process from the exhibition through the design of the book and back to the exhibition.

Anja Lutz is an artist and book designer [anjalutz.com]. She is a co-founder of the art book publisher The Green Box [thegreenbox.net] and was the initiator and art director of the international art and design project “shift!” [shift.de]. She studied at the University of the Arts London and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 2019, she founded the exhibition space A—Z [a-z-presents.com] in Berlin, dedicated to developing, presenting, and promoting ideas and projects in which graphic design transcends its boundaries and explores its unconventional and experimental facets. Anja Lutz received the European Adobe Design Award, served as a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut and Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, taught as a lecturer at the Bauhaus University Weimar, the Berlin University of the Arts, and Hyperwerk in Basel, and was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Goethe-Institut in Bangalore, India.