Stefan Guzy

Stefan Guzy (1980 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin) studied Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2001 to 2007. His teachers included Stefan Sagmeister, Holger Matthies, and Daniela Haufe & Detlef Fiedler (cyan).

Following early work as a VJ within the artist collective dis_sign, Guzy focused primarily on poster design for cultural institutions and public clients through Studio Zwölf, which he founded in 2000 (since 2006 in collaboration with Björn Wiede). He also worked in scenography, both in exhibition design and in the field of music video production.

With the founding of the Handsiebdruckerei screen printing workshop in Berlin in 2014, Guzy deepened his interest in traditional printmaking techniques. Together with national and international artists, he has since produced over 600 editions. In 2020, he established the studio’s in-house publishing imprint Handsiebdruckerei Editionen, dedicated to contemporary artistic printmaking.

In addition to his design practice, he engages in scholarly research on historical manuscripts. In 2023, he published a widely noted study on the provenance of the Voynich Manuscript.

Stefan Guzy has received numerous international awards for his design work. In 2016, he was appointed a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Following guest professorships at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and the Bauhaus University Weimar, as well as teaching positions in Bremen and Düsseldorf, he took on the guest professorship for Visual Identities at Folkwang University of the Arts in the summer semester of 2025.