Christoph Knoth (*1985) studied graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. In 2011 he completed his Master’s degree at ECAL Lausanne. In 2012 he was a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht with the project Computed Type.

In 2011 he co-founded the graphic design studio Knoth & Renner together with Konrad Renner. The studio develops web-based projects for institutions such as the Sonic Acts Biennial, the Werkleitz Festival, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, the EPFL Pavilions Lausanne, as well as for artists including Simon Denny and !Mediengruppe Bitnik, and for institutions and publications such as ARCH+, Kunstverein Leipzig, and e-flux.

In the winter semester 2015/16 Christoph Knoth was guest professor of information design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. In 2016 he taught together with Konrad Renner as guest researchers in typography at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where they initiated the project Digital Typography. Christoph Knoth has led workshops at international art and design schools including the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn, the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, ECAL Lausanne, the SDN Junior Research Conference Basel, and the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. From October 2016 to May 2017 he was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Since 2017, Christoph Knoth has been Professor of Digital Graphics (Klasse Digitale Grafik) at HFBK Hamburg, together with Konrad Renner.