Rob van Leijsen (born 1983 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, lives and works in
Geneva) is a multidisciplinary
graphic
designer. His practice focuses mainly on cultural projects, notably
in the fields of publishing design and research. He is currently head of
his his own graphic design studio in Geneva, in parallel to his teaching
position in the visual communication department at
HEAD – Geneva. In 2012,
he obtains his master's degree “Design, Orientation, Spaces and
Communication” at the HEAD – Geneva with the project
Art Handling in
Oblivion, an exhibition catalogue bringing together five
art
collections that were stolen during various wars. This book is
published by Edition Fink (Zürich) in 2014 and was awarded as one of the
“Most Beautiful Swiss Books” of 2014. The book also received an honorary
diploma at the competition “Best Book Design from all over the World” in
Leipzig in 2015. In 2016 he founded Dabook with Demian Conrad. Dabook is a
publishing house which aims to promote
Swiss
design.
