Elisabeth Klement

Elisabeth Klement is a graphic designer who lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, and has graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie graphic design department and Critical Studies department at Sandberg Instituut. Since 2009, together with Laura Pappa she runs Asterisk Summer School, an annual summer program based in Tallinn that deals with exploring the boarders of graphic design practices. Elisabeth has also run the art bookshop San Serriffe in Amsterdam with Pieter Verbeke since 2011. In 2015 she launched the publication series Apparition of the Ampersand, which aims to define the extended field of the practice of graphic design through interviews and writings by practitioners working in the fringes of the discipline.