Zak Kyes is a London-based graphic designer. He founded Zak Group in 2005, and since 2006 has been the art director of the Architectural Association (AA), London, where, in 2008, he cofounded the publishing imprint Bedford Press. In 2010, he received the INFORM Award for Conceptual Design from the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, which initiated the traveling exhibition "Zak Kyes Working With..." (2011/12). His design projects include the Cybermohalla Print Studio at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (with Nikolaus Hirsch and the Cybermohalla Ensemble, 2011); the Serpentine Gallery Manifesto Marathon, London (with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2008); and the Sternberg Press Solution series (with Ingo Niermann, since 2008). He has curated the touring exhibition "Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design" (2007-09); "The Information Economy" at MoMA PS1, New York (2010); and "Bridge The Gap? 8" at Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyusha (with Charles Arsène-Henry and Akiko Miyake, 2011). He has edited publications including Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice: The Reader (Sternberg Press, 2009), Exhibition Prosthetics (Bedford Press, 2010), COSEY COMPLEX Reader (ICA, 2010), and Space Is the Time You Need to Go to Someone Else (CCA, 2012). Kyes has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. His current projects include the art direction for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the development of a new graphic identity for Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin.