Friedrich Forssman is one of the most renowned typographers and designers in Germany. As a trained typesetter and after studying book design with Hans Peter Willberg, he has created an extensive body of work as a designer and author.

One of the highlights of his work is "Zettel's Traum", Arno Schmidt's late work, which is considered "undesignable" and which Friedrich Forssman has transferred into typesetting as part of his work for the Arno Schmidt Foundation.

Curating and designing exhibitions (such as "Arno Schmidt" at the Berlin Akademie der K¨¹nste am Hanseatenweg, until 10th of January 2016) and developing visuals (such as for the Deutsche Akademie f¨¹r Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt) are just as much a part of his activities as working on scholarly editions (such as "Walter Benjamin: Werke und Nachla?", Suhrkamp Verlag).

Friedrich Forssman is also the (co-)author of typographic textbooks and rulebooks such as "Erste Hilfe in Typografie", "Lesetypografie" and "Detailtypografie".

In addition to his work as a book designer, he has been a lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule f¨¹r Gestaltung Karlsruhe, the University of Erlangen in the book studies department and a substitute professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.