Victor Malsy works as a typographer, book designer and university lecturer, after training as a draftsman and nurse. For more than 30 years, he has devoted himself to the history of design, which is also the focus of his research and teaching at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, where he has been a professor of communication history since 2000. Together with Philipp Teufel, he founded labor visuell in 2004, which examines designers and design archives. Malsy has also owned his own office for communication and design since 1991.