About
Europa is a graphic design studio interested in all forms of culture. Europa work with a diverse set of cultural institutions on projects including graphic identities, books, publications, exhibition design, signage, art direction and websites. Europa’s approach to design is collaborative – believing the constraints that a project brings can be both liberating and joyful.
Europa has a particular interest in architecture, urbanism and the role that graphic design can play in a place’s identity. Europa look for moments when graphic design and architecture overlap, and create opportunities for our work to play a more supportive and less top down role in framing a place.
Europa was founded in 2007 by Mia Frostner and Robert Sollis after graduating from the Royal College of Art. William Jacobson joined in 2021.
Address
Unit 29, Sara Lane Studios
60 Stanway Street
London N1 6 RE
+44 (0) 20 7033 0145
Talks & Texts
Visualising the Conversation
Hackney Wick Cultural Interest Group
9 June 2023
talk
Design Thinking or just Thinking?
The London Interdisciplinary School
3 November 2022
talk
Filling the Void master class
KIT (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Karlsruhe, Germany
7 July 2022
talk
Designing with Accessibility Guidelines
Ravensbourne University London
5 July 2022
talk
UCA Epsom
17 January 2022
talk
Berghs School of Communication
Stockholm, Sweden
30 September 2021
talk
Beckmans College of Design
Stockholm, Sweden
27 April 2021
talk
Kingston University
10 November 2020
talk
School of Art, Architecture and Design
(London Metropolitan University)
4 February 2020
talk
Never Ever Let an Architect Design a Sign
Cornerteateret
Bergen, Norway
14 June 2019
talk
Never Let an Architect Design a Sign
Doga
Oslo, Norway
13 June 2019
talk
Making Things Social
Central Saint Martins
26 March 2019
talk
Kingston University
21 November 2018
talk
Archaeology of the Present
Cambridge University
12 October 2018
talk/crit
The Future of Living?
The Collective
20 September 2018
talk
Power, Protest and Participation
Design Museum
25 April 2018
talk
Collaborative Practices and Precarity
in conversation with Rosalie Schweiker
Elephant and Castle Pub
13 March 2018
talk
Art as Labour
Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
6 August 2017
talk
Billboards in Public Spaces
Marking Domains
Institute of Contemporary Art
7 April 2017
talk
Graphic Identity and the Built Environment
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
23 March 2017
talk
Four Approaches to Typography
International Symposium of Typography
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
17 March 2017
talk
The Identity Façade
with Peter Nencini
oughough.uk
2016
text
Work for Work
Alternative Art School
2 November 2016
talk
Learning with Industry
Graphic Design Educators Network
8 September 2016
talk
The Identity Façade
in conversation with Evening Class
Camberwell College of Arts
8 March 2016
talk
Designing and Editing
in conversation with Zak Keys
Royal College of Art
10 December 2015
Middlesex University
4 November 2015
talk
UCA Epsom
5 October 2015
talk
Bank or Bet?
Ideapedia
Idea Magazine
Issue 371, 2015
text
Identity and Place and Loughborough
Swan in the Rushes, Loughborough
30 September 2015
talk
London Design Festival
Victoria & Albert Museum
19 September 2015
talk
Only Make
Gratuitous Type
No. 4, 2014
text
Progress Proponent
Grafik
19 May 2014
text
Design Boom
17 April 2014
interview
If Fibonacci was a Concrete Poet
part of Golden Meaning by GraphicDesign&
Design Museum
26 February 2014
talk
Portfolio
IDPURE 33
December 2013
text
What to Expect from a Graphic Designer
in conversation with James Langdon
Spike Island, Bristol
27 May 2013
talk
Etapes – Design Graphique & Culture Visuelle
May & June, 2013
interview
6×6
Letterpress: Something to Say
St Bride’s
9 November 2012
talk
How to get a free lunch from the rector (and David Hockney)
Questions/Questions
edited by Charlotte Cheetham and Samuel Bonnet
printed on Blurb, 2012
text
The Aspen Complex
in conversation with Martin Beck
Gasworks
19 June 2012
talk
How to get a free lunch from the rector (and David Hockney)
The Final Word
Royal College of Art, 2011
text
Aerial Views
Ryan Gander’s Night School
ICA
22 September 2011
talk
Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Astrid Stavro in discussions on the position of women in the creative industries with Paula Scher, Frith Kerr, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Apfel, Fanette Mellier, Mia Frostner (Europa), Corinne Zellweger, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Lizá Defossez Ramalho (R2), Sonya Dyakova and Marieke Stolk (Experimental Jetset)
Elephant Magazine
spring, 2011
text
Literal, Symbolic and Esoteric Lettering
Daria Chapkovskaya and Innokentiy Sharkov’s Studio
Moscow, Russia
29 December 2010
talk
Conceptual Type
Danish Faces
Copenhagen, Denmark
19 November 2010
talk
On Work for Work
Architectural Association
9 December 2009
talk
Five Ants Are More Than Four Elephants
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
3 December 2009
talk
Talk for …
Royal College of Art
18 November 2009
Graphic Readymades
University of the West of England
19 October 2009
talk
Social and Relational Design Strategies
with James Goggin
The Reader: Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice
Sternberg Press, 2009
text
A desktop discussion as designers in residence
Iaspis
2 July 2009
talk
Europapolitik
Cap and Design
Issue 4, 2009
text
Professional Practise
Bournville Centre for Visual Arts
16 March 2009
talk
Fail Better
University of Brighton
22 January 2009
talk
In conversation with James Goggin and Emily King
Forms of Inquiry at Iaspis, Stockholm
6 December 2008
talk
Comments in The 17
Bill Drummond
Beautiful Books, 2008
text
Graphic Curation
Chelsea College of Art & Design
23 April 2008
talk
Aerial Views
Limoncello Gallery
6 March 2008
talk
Work in Progress
Creative Review
December 2007
text
Work for Work
Grafik Magazine
Issue 155, 2007
text
Workshops & Events
Make an Entrance
with Jan Kattein
London Design Festival x Camden Green Loop
21 September 2023
workshop
How to Make a Museum
with Sam Jacob Studio
William Morris Gallery, London
31 August 2023
workshop
This Not That
Hackney Woodcraft Folk
15 June 2023
badge making workshop
The Cauldron of Communication
IDE (Innovation Design Engineering)
Imperial College, London
13 May 2022
workshop
Graphic Design x Urbanism
MA Cities
Central Saint Martins
7 May 2022
Visual Communication in the Public Realm
Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, Sweden
April–May 2022
teaching
Talking Planning
Create
9 March 2021
workshop
Typography Summer School
Rabbits Road Institute
15 July 2019
workshop
Typography Summer School
Rabbits Road Institute
12 July 2018
workshop
Sign
Ravensbourne University
21 May 2018
workshop
Typography Summer School
Rabbits Road Institute
14 July 2017
workshop
Part of Visuelt jury
Oslo, Norway
9–11 March 2017
event
Help me spend £6k
part of Production Show
with Rosalie Schweiker
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
23 February 2017
workshop
Tableaux
with Åbäke
Assembly Point
11 May 2016
event
Why Publish?
with Peter Nencini
Norwich University
14 November 2016
workshop
EUnity
with Rosalie Schweiker
The CASS
15 June 2016
workshop
Graphic Archaeology
with Peter Nencini
Market Town Corner, Loughborough
6 February 2016
workshop
Selling Sprawl
with Finn Williams, Asif Khan, David Knight and Jack Self
Royal College of Art
19 November 2015
workshop
Travelogue Summer School
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
6–8 August 2015
workshop
The Least Beautiful Swedish Books
Konstfack
Stockholm, Sweden
1–5 September 2014
workshop
Exercices de Style Typographique
La Martinière
Lyon, France
31 March–4 April 2014
workshop
Building Rights Pub Quiz
Victoria & Albert Museum
27 June 2014
event
Walters Way
Camberwell Space
27 February 2014
workshop
We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
Leipzig, Germany
20–21 January 2014 & 12–13 February 2014
workshop
Non-Essential Forms
Glasgow School of Art
11–12 November 2013
workshop
Typography Summer School
The Drawing Room
23 & 30 July 2013
workshop
The Least Beautiful Swiss Books
ECAL
Lausanne, Switzerland
19–23 November 2012
workshop
Go Deep or Go Home
A.S.C. Gallery
17 November–21 December 2012
exhibition
6×6
Her House Gallery
9–10 November 2012
exhibition
The Graphic Design Olympics
Konstfack
Stockholm, Sweden
9–13 April 2012
workshop
Typography Summer School
The Drawing Room
10 & 17 July 2012
workshop
Positive Futures
Part of Into the Fold
Camberwell Space Gallery
6 March 2012
workshop
Pitti Imagine Uomo It’s Graphic Now!
Fortezza da Basso
Firenze, Italy
8–11 January 2012
exhibition
Bryan’s Bar
Sunday Art Fair
13–16 October 2011
event
Typography Summer School
The Drawing Room
4 & 14 July 2011
workshop
Exercises in Typographic Style
Konstfack
Stockholm, Sweden
11–15 April 2011
workshop
Copy Shop
Klingspor Museum Für Internationale Buch- & Schriftkunst
Offenbach, Germany
15 February 2011
workshop
Ryan’s Bar
with Ryan Gander
Sunday Art Fair
14–16 October 2010
event
Concept Typing
Berghs School of Communication
Stockholm, Sweden
3–6 September 2010
workshop
Typography Summer School Critiques
V&A Museum
30–31 July 2010
event
Typography Summer School
The Drawing Room
6 & 13 July 2010
workshop
Parallel School
Strelka Institute
Moscow, Russia
16–18 June 2010
workshop
Inverted Parallel Cards Tournament
Berkeley Art Museum, USA
30 April 2010
event
Inverted Parallel Cards Tournament
Lisson Gallery
21 January 2010
event
Incredibly Short Stories
with Holly Wales
Winchester School of Art
17 November 2009
workshop
Publish and be Damned
Oxford House
27 September 2009
event
Barterama
Barbican
26 July 2009
event
Sub-Plan
with Finn Williams and David Knight
Architectural Association
13–31 July 2009
workshop
Invisible Library
with Petter Hanberger
Tender Pixel Gallery
26 June 2009
workshop
Iaspis (International Artists Studio Program In Sweden)
Stockholm, Sweden
22 June–14 August 2009
artist residency
One Week Studio
Danish Design School
Copenhagen, Denmark
2–6 March 2009
workshop
Forms of Inquiry Reading Room
Lausanne, Switzerland
27 February–9 April 2009
exhibition
A Typology of Well-Being
Kingston University
6 February 2009
workshop
Session 2 Flags
Am Nuden Da
23–25 January 2009
exhibition
Of Libraries
London Metropolitan University
2008–2009
workshop
How Very Tokyo
Claska Hotel
Tokyo, Japan
5–28 December 2008
exhibition
Parallel Cards Tournament
Wouldn’t it be nice…
Somerset House
22 November 2008
event
Creative Accounting
with Finn Williams
Royal College of Art
13 November 2008
workshop
Growing Bunting
Village Fête
Victoria & Albert Museum
25–26 July 2008
event
No Place Like Home
London College of Communication
7–14 May 2008
workshop
Knowledge Bank
London Metropolitan University
2007–2008
workshop
Grass Stain Championships
Village Fête
Victoria & Albert Museum
27–28 July 2007
event
Alphabeting the Museum
with Catherine Guiral
Victoria & Albert Museum
20 March 2007
workshop
Walking Portrait Gallery
Village Fête
Victoria & Albert Museum
28–29 July 2006
event