is a graphic designer and editor based in Copenhagen. His work is content driven and motivated by the engagement of a visual, editorial and conceptual approach. info@markemilpoulsen.com UPCOMING: • Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation: Towards Non-Local Collaborative Art Practices by Amilcar Packer, Carla Zaccagnini and Søren Kjærgaard. Publication design, printing and binding in collaboration with Wilfred Wagner. To be published in 2025. • Sanabel Abdelrahman: Publication design of two texts by the Palestinian writer and scholar. Translated and published by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. To be published in 2025–26. • Pilot: First installment in a series of publications featuring annotated conversations on graphic design and experimental research. In collaboration with Claes Storm. To be published in 2026.
Nothing Comes From Nothing: Objects, Stories, and Encounters from the Dinesen Archive. Concept, graphic design, editing (in conversation with Hans Peter Dinesen and Jens Jacob Dinesen), printing and binding (in collaboration with Actum Kopi & Tryk and Benjamin Savi). Texts by Peter Møller Rasmussen. Published by Dinesen Legacy. 2025 Shortlisted for “Best Book Design from all over the World 2025” by Stiftung Buchkunst (Leipzig). Selected for “Årets bedste bogarbejde / Best Danish Book Design 2025” by Forening for boghaandværk (Copenhagen)
SIMIAN atelier: Variable logos for the art programme for children at SIMIAN. The logos were conceived as an intervention in SIMIAN's preexisting visual identity, designed by Wrong Studio.
Display. Artist publication by Tringa Gashi and Andita Shabanaj. 2025
Graphic design and typesetting for poet Nath Krause. Published by Arena. 2025
Handout and wall text for the exhibition BITTER PEACH NO STOP by Tringa Gashi and Mercedes Pimiento at Fuxia 2. The handout features textual contributions by poet Merima Dizdarević and visual artist María García Ruiz responding to the work of Tringa and Mercedes respectively. The show was curated by Fuxia 2 and Blanca del Río. 2024
Aia Sofia Coverley Turan: Catalogue for the exhibition To be a place that has no center at HFKD – Huset For Kunst og Design. With texts by Etel Adnan, Deniz Kiy and Anna Stahn. Typeface by Phil Baber. Cover screenprinted by Benjamin Savi. Published by Huset for Kunst og Design. 2024
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Jonas Georg Christensen: Projekt Kontekst – catalogue for the exhibition REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010–24) at c4 projects. With contributions by Jørn Erslev Andersen, Maria Finn, Lars Bang Larsen and Anne Munnecke. Published by Udg. Txt. 2024
Poster for a performance by Skjold Rambow. 2024
Clarice Lispector: At skrive og leve (To Write and Live). A selection of “crônicas” first published in the newspaper Jornal do Brasil between 1967–1973. Designed in collaboration with Orin Bristow. Translated by Tine Lykke Prado and Kristina Nya Glaffey. Edited by Astrid Willow Møldrup. Published by Basilisk. 2023 Selected for “Årets Bedste Bogarbejde / Best Danish Book Design 2024” by Forening for Boghaandværk (Copenhagen)
Paula Duvå: Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed). Published by Disko Bay. 2023 Shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, 2024
The Jerome Bruner Library: From New York to Nijmegen. Published by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics to commemorate the American psycholinguist Jerome Bruner, and to inaugurate the donation of his personal library to the institute. Texts by Willem J.M. Levelt, Karin Kastens and Eleanor M. Fox. Display typeface by Orange Slice Type. 2020
Drawings and labels for Rodløs Cider. 2019–2022
Ginger and Piss #4: The Intern. Guest-edited with Claes Storm, in conversation with Yana Foqué, Ronja Andersen and Maxine Kopsa. Designed by Marc Hollenstein. With contributions by A. D. Cinzano, Even Steven, The Great Illusionist, Jennifer Jessica Jane, ………… …….. Office, Mads-Egil Petersen and Roxana Rosenthal. Published by Kunstverein Publishing, Amsterdam. 2019
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