Z.A.K.
Unit 1.4, 1-5 Vyner Street
London E2 9DG, United Kingdom
Telephone/Fax +44(0)20 8981 8880
VAT Reg. Number: GB 939363880

For portfolio requests please e-mail us

General inquiries: studio@zak.to
Administrative contact: accounts@zak.to

Job & internship applications: work@zak.to

Now accepting applications for Research Assistant internship starting September, 2010.

Please send a brief but specific covering letter, CV, and a portfolio of work in PDF format. Please name files with your name and include "Internship" in the subject of your e-mail. Due to the high volume of applications we cannot reply to all applicants.

About
The activities of Z.A.K. studio include graphic design, publishing, editing, and curatorial projects. The studio was twice awarded the prize for the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2009 and is based in London since 2005. The currently consists of Zak Kyes, Grégory Ambos and intern Claudia Klat and has previously included designers Sam Baldwin, Lina Grumm and Julie Kim.

Zak Kyes is a Swiss-American graphic designer based in London whose practise encompasses editing, publishing and curating. His work engages with publications and their dissemination as sites for debate and exchange rather than documentation. Kyes joined the Architectural Association as Art Director in September 2006. He curated the touring exhibition "Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design" and is the co-editor the accompanying catalogue (with Mark Owens, 2007). Books include The Reader: Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice (with Magnus Ericson et al., 2009), Exhibition Prosthetics (with
Joseph Grigely, 2010), and Cosey Complex Reader (with Maria Fusco, Richard Birkett, 2010). In 2008 he co-founded Bedford Press, a private press and imprint of AA Publications. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London and in the MA programme at ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne.

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