Hi, I am Christoph Knoth and this is my website.

Together with Konrad Renner I share a virtual studio. We work on visual strategies, identities and websites. Since 2017 we are professors at the HFBK — the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg for the class Digitale Grafik.

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Projects that I worked on

Website for the ADKV – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine representing almost 300 Kunstvereine in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg
Online shop for the publisher Spector Books
Website for the Trans-Positionen festival organized by Werkleitz
Website for the album Schiiwerfer by Göldin and Bit-Tuner together with !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Website for Holzer Kobler Architekturen with Project Projects
Website for artist Simon Denny
Website for the conference IC16 – shaping the future of mathematics communication
Website for the exhibition Transparencies by Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg; logos by Metahaven
Website for the .move ON festival organized by Werkleitz
Website for the Kunsthalle Zürich in collaboration with Dan Solbach; Typeface by Dinamo.us
Website for the German Pavillon at the Venice Biennale 2015, representing Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl and Tobias Zielony, curated by Florian Ebner; Website together with graphic designers: Fabian Bremer, Nicola Reiter, Pascal Storz, Helmut Völter; Typeface by Dinamo.us
Website for Simon Denny’s project Secret Power for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale together with David Bennewith
Website for Luther Trip a contemporary view on the Mansfelder Land in the form of a travel.
Website redesign for EMAN#EMARE – European Media Network
Website redesign for Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art together with Konrad Renner
Website redesign for Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory together with David Bennewith
Website for fashion designer Magdalena Stark
Website for the Utopien Vermeiden Festival organized by Werkleitz
Website for Schauspiel Stuttgart together with Spector Bureau and Katharina Köhler
Website for Die vergessenen Bücher together with Roland Früh and Corina Neuenschwander
Website for Leipzig based artist Stefanie Leinhos
Website for the Berlin based illustrators Golden Cosmos
Blog and portfolio website of Matylda Krzykowski
Website for photographer Nikolaus Brade (together with Nickel Berlin)
Planing, design and setup for imaginary.org, one of biggest communities for maths and arts
Website for photographer Olga Cafiero
Website for book artist Friederike von Hellermann
Website for photographer Matthieu Lavanchy
Website for artist Corinna Rotert
Website for Aleksandar Todorović
My parametric type design program that I developed in my research Project Computed Type (pdf). (Feel free to follow my computedtype twitter.)

Articles, Research and Lectures

Lecture about my portfolio and screenshots at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Lecture about screenshots at the It’s a book, it’s a chance, it’s a times new romance at the Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 19th of March, 2016 at the HGB Leipzig.

Lecture about screenshots with Konrad Renner at Easy Lessoning 6 in New York.

I am a fellow at Akademie Schloß Solitude for the period 2015–2017.

Article about screenshots for Grafik.net

Lecture at Schau der Gestaltung VI about screenshots

Lecture at a conference about research in graphic design: Tarptautinė konferencija. TIRIU, VADINASI MATAU in Vilnius, Lithuania

Lecture at the conference Schrift im 21. Jahrhundert at the Typotage Leipzig at the Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany

Lecture at Mzin project space for graphics and art, Leipzig, Germany

Lecture at the Jan van Eyck Academy opening week 2012

For the whole year of 2012 I was a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck Akademie with my project Computed Type

Lecture at the ATypI in Reykjavík, Iceland

The short version of my master’s thesis Computed Type (pdf)

Teaching and Workshops

One day workshop and lecture as part of The Making of an Institution at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

One day workshop about parametric type with Anja Kaiser in the class of Franziska Morlok in the communication design department of the FH Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.

One week workshop about temporary websites at the graphic design department of the HfG Karlsruhe.

In the summer semester 2016 I gave a workshop in the graphic design department of the University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein called Big Blind Data which ended with a small workshop and lecture series organized by the students called How to be invisible.

For the year 2016 Konrad Renner and I are guest researchers at Bauhaus University Weimar teaching a class on Digital Typography.

One day workshop about the poster as website in the interactive design class of Luke Archer in the Graphic Design Department at Yale University School of Art in New Haven

For the winter semester 2015 I was a guest professor at the graphic design department of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

One week workshop entitled Fonts by Command for the design bachelor students at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle together with Anja Kaiser

One week Workshop entitled Fast Fonts for the graphic design students of the EKA in Tallin, Estonia

One day workshop about Computed Type for the design master students at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam together with Anja Kaiser

One week workshop about skeletons for the design bachelor students at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

5 day workshop about programming fonts for the graphic design bachelor students at the ECAL (L’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne)

Afternoon workshop at the SDN Junior Research Conference 2010 with the topic The Future of Magazines

Exhibitions

LocalNonOffLine Cologne, Germany organized by Florian Kuhlmann at Boutique, Bruch&Dallas and Gold&Beton

IMPRINT Fair 2013, Mainz, Germany

Schrift im 21. Jahrhundert at the Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany

*Latent Stare* by David Bennewith at Casco in Utrecht, The Netherlands