spreeeng is a cooperative design practice providing graphic design and creative research services to clients within the cultural sector. We develop books, exhibitions and experimental websites for clients such as Tate, V&A, Barbican Centre, White Cube, and UAL, Prestel, Thames and Hudson, Meatspace Press, Netflix and Mozilla Foundation. We have also worked closely with artists such as Dani d’Ingeo, Taher Jaoui and Trevor Yeung, or independent initiatives like STORE, BOARC and Bittersweet Review.

Contact us at studio@spreeeng.com

socialising our practice

We are committed to disseminate design knowledge that emerges from our practice with the wider public. This involves discussing with our clients the significance of sharing and negotiating the appropriate spaces for it. We address this in different ways: full transparency about specifications and designer accreditation in the context of book colophons, or the writing design notes which guide readers through pivotal design decisions and frames of reference.

spreeeng is also actively involved in both formal educational environments and informal gatherings like The Summer Event. Moreover, our individual practices engage with communities in different ways, whether through projects, collectives, or community hours programmes.

a peek into the evolving politics of spreeeng

Our cooperative is made of already existing independent design practices, and we rarely sign our projects as spreeeng, but rather as the names of the individual contributors to the project. We seeek to maintain our hierarchies as horizontal as possible, rejecting the figure of the internship, and making sure every person involved in our projects is rightly credited.

members and collaborators

spreeeng is currently formed by members carlos romo-melgar, héloïse d’almeida, john philip sage, and roxy zeiher. We regularly collaborate with alessia arcuri, soup (nina jua klein and simon wilson), lydia blasco, open practice (gabriela matuszyk and katie evans), and v-rm studio. We have collaborated in the past with ben west, bryony quinn, eider corral, francisca roseiro, lucas hesse, mariana sameiro, sezione grafica, tom joyes, and yuxin xiong.