Hagen Verleger is a graphic designer, re­searcher, lecturer, and artist based in Berlin.

He studied for a BA and MA in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Design in Kiel, Leipzig, and Maas­tricht (with ↗ Klaus Detjen, Annette le Fort, André Heers, and ↗ Günter Karl Bose), and is cur­rent­ly working towards a PhD in Media Studies at the Uni­ver­sity of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel (supervised by ↗ Petra Maria Meyer).

An award-winning ↗ graphic designer with 15+ years of pro­fessional experience, Verleger primarily works as a typo­graph­er and book designer for and with artists, cultural and educational institutions, and publishers.

As a doctoral candidate, his ↗ research in Media Studies and Design History focuses on mate­ri­ally embedded ide­olo­gies and the relationship between book de­sign and post­struc­tural­ist con­cepts of language, writing, text, and author­ship.

Since 2016, he has ↗ taught the­o­ret­i­cal seminars (on crit­i­cal and messy graphic design his­to­ries, among other topics) and prac­ti­cal de­sign work­shops and given lectures at art acade­mies and uni­ver­si­ties in Ger­many, the Nether­­lands, the UK, and the US.

Verleger also maintains an ↗ artistic practice, exploring themes of mem­o­ry and the ar­chive. His artist’s books and spa­tial installations/inter­ventions have featured in group exhibi­tions internationally, and in 2023 Kunstraum Mün­chen presented his first solo show.