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Julia Syrzistie works across printmaking, book arts and design for print. In her work, she researches unexplored narratives and social phenomena through a typographic lens: in particular the history of letterpress printing. Recently, she has been exploring 19th century decorative type, imaginary alphabets and printer’s ornaments.  

Current and upcoming:

1–26/4 Helsinki Analog Festival, Oodi Central Library, Helsinki (FI)

24/4 Constellations in Metal: an Exploration of Baltic Typographic Identities.
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (EE)

5–6/5 Under the Leaf Art Book Fair, Helsinki (FI)


Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking
Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki
2023–2024

BA(Hons) Communication Design
Glasgow School of Art 
2015–2019 

Contact: julia.syrzistie@gmail.com