Perspectives on designing texts

James Langdon is an independent graphic designer and writer and Professor for Communication Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 2004, he has worked closely with many artists on graphic design for publication and exhibition. From 2008 to 2018, he was a founding director of the artist-run space Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. He is presently working on a biography of English designer Norman Potter (1923–1995) as a teacher. twitter: @jalangdon

Katharina Nejdl, designer, founder of www.andshymagazine.com.
As a graphic designer and developer, Katharina Nejdl is interested in using digital technologies—such as web, AR and AI—as graphic tools. She studied at Sandberg Institut, UdK Berlin and ZHdK. At the moment, she is teaching at Burg Halle. In 2019, together with Chris Möller, Victor Kümel and Sophia Rohwetter, she founded ­ magazine, a digital literature magazine exploring new ways of digital reading, writing and publishing.

Chris Möller studied Philosophy, German and Applied Literature in Kassel and Berlin. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance event organiser, curator and moderator with Kabeljau & Dorsch, and ­ magazine, among others. In 2020, she was a jury member for the German Book Prize. She is currently researching contemporary literary education. In winter 2022, the podcast series Zwischen on this topic will be published.