Manuaali is a fragmentary novel written by Klaus Maunuksela and designed by Viivi Prokofjev. The manual-like book is both a tactile and functional object, with rounded corners, blurred pages, and delicate details that create a visual dramaturgy with varying rhythms. Manuaali was awarded the Most Beautiful Book of the Year in 2022 by the Finnish Book Art Committee.

Klaus Maunuksela is a writer and dramaturg whose body of work includes prose works, plays, essays, and collaborative projects with artists from various fields. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation at the Uniarts Helsinki's Theatre Academy on the experimental potential of the audiobook. Maunuksela's most recent prose work, Epifania, was published in January 2026.

Ways of Writing is a project investigating how designerly approaches might be used to reflect upon the relationship between language, writing, and emerging digital technologies. More specifically, and as a point of departure, the project engages with different gestures of writing through hands on experiments with machine learning models, datasets, and archives.

Eirunn Kvalnes is an Oslo based designer and a PhD research fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her practice unfolds in the intersection between visual and digital design. Working across different formats and media, her work celebrates exploration and curiousity, rooted in an interest in language, materiality, writing, new digital technologies and typography.

Imagologies is based on the 1992 transatlantic "satellite seminar" lecture series by the two philosophers and academics Esa Saarinen and Mark C. Taylor. These seminars were relatively early experiments in digital correspondence and online lecturing. Imagologies, an "un-book", was designed by Marjaana Virta to offer insight and ideas in a non-linear mode: it was meant to be read in fragments here and there.

Marjaana Virta, the prize-winning Finnish Graphic Designer, may have a mind equipped with something like a "hyperactive word center". Letters and words have always been her true conviction within design, along with one color: black. Already during her design education, she knew she wanted to work with books and publications, and that is the space she has inhabited for her entire career.

Arja Karhumaa is a graphic designer and text artist, Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design, and the founder of the Centre for Text Margins at Aalto University. Karhumaa's text work spans across typography and experimental writing, across artistic research and poetry. Karhumaa is also co-founder of the experimental publishing collective Multipöly.

Ihmiskokeita on Mahdollisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran (MKS) vuonna 2016 julkaisema menetelmällinen kollektiiviromaanihanke, jonka kirjoittamiseen osallistui 14 kirjailijaa ja muotoiluun 7 graafisen suunnittelun opiskelijaa. Proosakirjallisuuden rajoja ja yksilökeskeistä tekijyyttä haastavassa Ihmiskokeissa sulautui toisiinsa menetelmällisen kirjallisuuden ja yhdessä kirjoittamisen perinteet.

Sinikka Vuola (s. 1972) on kirjoittanut mm. kaksi romaania ja kolme runokokoelmaa, yhdessä Laura Lindstedtin kanssa menetelmällisen teoksen 101 tapaa tappaa aviomies (Siltala 2022) sekä Tommi Melenderin kanssa kaksi esseekirjaa, viimeisimpänä Romaanihenkilön elämän (WSOY 2026). Vuola on proosan keinoja tutkivan Mahdollisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran jäsen. Lisäksi hän opettaa kirjoittamista Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa.

Kaarina Tammisto toimii itsenäisenä visuaalisena suunnittelijana ja tehnyt suunnittelua kotimaisen kirjallisuuden, arkkitehtuurin, akateemisten julkaisujen ja erinäisten kulttuuriprojektien parissa. Hän on toiminut Libero-lehden AD:na ja työskentelee tällä hetkellä Kulttuurintutkimus-lehdessä taittajana ja teknisenä toimittajana.

Letters make words but they can also represent other things. This talk looks at the long, strange history of letters as pictures: "m" as a screw in 1670s Austria, or "o" as a pebble in early 1900s Japan, and many other cases. Where is the boundary between text and image?

Heikki Lotvonen is a graphic designer and toolmaker interested in pushing the boundaries of text-based art and design. His practice is centered around developing experimental design tools that are based on forgotten and unconventional design methods and that attempt to reimagine some fundamental paradigms of design and typography, offering alternatives to conventional ways of making. Heikki is the current designer-in-residency at the Centre for Text Margings (2025–2026).

Eurantie Window Publication (Ikkunajulkaisu Eurantiellä, 2022–2026) is an experimental urban space publication in Helsinki that presents new texts from artists, activists and researchers in the studio window of Multipöly collective. Each text, realised as vinyl decals, is displayed for one month. Text design plays an important role: graphic designers interpret the texts based on their own reading and writers might be surprised and see their text in ways they might not have imagined. For the window, Denise Ziegler published an epigram poetry piece dedicated to their former self, designed by Lauri Toikka. Anna-Mari Tenhunen designed three window publications written by Kari Yli-Annala, Tine Melzer, and Jaana Okulov & Teppo Vesikukka. Aliisa Perikangas, the facilitator for the discussion, designed three texts by Linda-Maria Raninen, Renad Shqeirat, Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson and Henrik Pathirane.

Denise Ziegler, DFA, is a visual artist and researcher of public space currently working as a senior university lecturer at Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE) unit at Aalto University. Ziegler's practice includes sculptures, drawings, paintings, videos, literary-visual works and writing. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space to work with its mechanisms and possibilities.

Anna-Mari Tenhunen is a graphic designer specializing in creating print publications. Studying meanings, associations and materiality guide her work and she often closely collaborates with writers and photographers during the design process.

Aliisa Perikangas is a graphic designer, artist, and writer whose practice is focused on text design and typography. She has worked with local artists, writers, and other designers, mainly with projects focused on text art and art books.