nóra békés is a graphic designer, visual storyteller, type designer and researcher. she studied graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, from where she graduated in 2018. in her applied work she focuses on typography, book design, exhibition design and type design. her self-initiated projects are often based on archive research and the (re-)interpretation of the findings in a contemporary context. her work is characterized by interdisciplinary approaches and experiments of combining graphic, spatial and textual elements, to create multi-layered narratives. she collaborates with writer Mark S. Mullee under the imprint Oakmoss Press, experimenting with more-than-human storytelling. she publishes her typefaces and related research at the Library of Narrative Types, an independent type foundry and publishing platform.

she presented her work at exhibitions, conferences and festivals like the Chaumont Graphic Design Festival, Chaumont (2015) Declaring Reason, Meermanno Museum, The Hague (2017) KABK Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2018), AtypI Tokyo 2019, Miraikan MuseumTokyo (2019) Reviving Type Book Launch, Museum Meermanno, The Hague (2019) Other Ways of Watching Together, MAMA, Rotterdam (2020), ZineCamp, Worm Rotterdam (2022), Graphic Matters Palace Talks (2023). she received the Talent Development Grant from the Creative industries Fund NL in 2022-2023. she has worked for artists, writers, cultural institutions and NGO-s, among which are the Valkhof Museum (Nijmegen), the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Graphic Matters (Breda). she is currently based in Amsterdam, she works as an independent graphic designer.

see also:
oakmosspress.eu
libraryofnarrativetypes.xyz

email: norabekes@gmail.com
mobile: +31 623 485 691
kvk: 72204613
btw: NL002526478B26.