The Magazine of the German Design Council

Gerrit Terstiege

Freelance journalist and author

Gerrit Terstiege, born in 1968, lives and works in Mülheim/Ruhr. He studied under Michael Erlhoff and Gui Bonsiepe at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD) and the Glasgow School of Art, among others. He then worked for the magazine form from 1997 to 2012, becoming editor-in-chief in 2006. He has published three books with Birkhäuser Verlag, including ‘The Making of Design’ and ‘Graphic Spaces’. He has taught as a lecturer and visiting professor at Swiss and German universities since 1998. He is editor-in-chief of the Rams Foundation.