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Arja Karhumaa

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
A806 Department of Art and Media

I am a graphic designer and text artist, and Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design. I am the founder and director of Centre for Text Margins – Tekstien marginaalien keskus at Aalto ARTS. I’m also co-founder of the experimental publishing collective Multipöly.

My work spans across typography, design, and experimental writing, and across both poetry and academia. I am always curious about unseen currents within contemporary visual communication, and I want to seek modes of diffractive and sustainable academic practice beyond commercial interest.

I'm into language and typography, publication as art/design practice, and redefining communication design in the context of new materiality. All of these areas are visible in my artistic doctoral research ·¡±èä/¾±²µ±ð²Ô±ð²õ¾±²õ (2021) featuring the bookwork Epägenesis: Katalogi X (2020), a catalogue of material and conceptual writing. I am co-editor of the volume The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design (Routledge, 2023).


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Publications

Arja Karhumaa 2025

Arja Karhumaa 2025 Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon

Arja Karhumaa, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Elina Suoyrjö 2024

Arja Karhumaa 2024

Arja Karhumaa, Maija Hirvanen 2024

Arja Karhumaa 2024

Arja Karhumaa 2024

Arja Karhumaa, Stina Saari 2023

Arja Karhumaa 2023 Atlas of aspect change

Pauliina Nykänen, Arja Karhumaa 2023 The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design