Formal Settings is a Berlin and Copenhagen based type- and graphic design studio, creating typographically driven visual communication and publications in collaboration with various international clients, mainly in the fields of art and culture. The studio was founded in 2014 by Amanda-Li Kollberg & Siri Lee Lindskrog and is characterised by a strong engagement in the field. The studio’s reflective practice blends tradition and experimentation as well as Scandinavian and international influences. Amanda-Li and Siri Lee are co-authors of the book Notes On Book Design, which was published in 2023 with Dutch publisher Onomatopee and from 2021-2024 have been co-organisers of the Nordic design festival Post Design Festival. They regularly give talks, workshops and participate as jury members in design competitions internationally.

Clients include: MOMENTUM Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Stiftung Buchkunst, The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Art Barns Lolland, Book Lab, BODE Gallery, Danish Association of Book Arts, HAUT Scene, Anxiety Empire Magazine, AF·ART Magazine, The Danish Library Association, European Glass Context, NW Gallery, Antalis Papers, Artland App, Rosinante&Co, Forlaget Silkefyret, DokumentART Film Festival, Detour Urban Dance Festival, Insitu Site-Specific Dance Festival, The Danish Music Schools.

TALKS
Hfg Offenbach, Germany (2024)
UDK, Berlin (2024)
Type Thursday, Berlin (2022)
Adobe Live, UK (2021)
Conversas, Berlin (2020)
Type Thursday, Berlin (2020)
Krabbesholm Højskole, Denmark (2019)

PRESS
Eye on Design
Adobe 99U
Page Magazine
Ordinary Wednesday
Design Rush

WRITING
Notes on Book Design (book, Onomatopee 2023)
No Word is an Island (essay, Post.Design/Tangle, 2023)

TEACHING
Krabbesholm Højskole, Denmark
ESDIP, Berlin
Godsbanen, Denmark

AWARDS
TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2022

JURY
Book Pageant: a book-look competition 2024, Berlin
Best Book Design from all over the World 2023, Leipzig
Visueltprisen 2023, Grafill, Oslo