I am a British and/or Australian creative director, graphic designer, and teacher working in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia; based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand); from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Arnhem, Chicago, and Providence. I studied graphic design at the Royal College of Art and founded a design practice named Practise in London with my partner Shan James upon graduation in 1999. The studio’s work includes creative direction, design, art direction, and occasional editing of publications, magazines, brand identity systems, posters, campaigns, websites, videos, typefaces, and exhibitions for advertising, art, architectural, civic, cultural, fashion, and publishing clients all over the world.From 2005 to 2008 I was art director of the avant-garde British music magazine The Wire, alongside running the Practise studio. A key client for us for most of the 2000s was Tate: exhibition identities, campaigns, posters, publications, digital projects from website to Tate's first online video series, and brand auditing and consulting across Tate Modern, Britain, and St Ives. From 2010 to 2013, I was Director of Design, Publishing, and New Media at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Between London and Chicago, we were based in Arnhem, the Netherlands for a year, where I taught at the small but influential postgraduate school Werkplaats Typografie, while also visiting as lecturer in history, theory, and critical practice at École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), an institution with which I've had an ongoing relationship since my first teaching visit there in 1999. I have served as a thesis critic at Rhode Island School of Design since 2012, and taught full-time in the RISD Graphic Design BFA and MFA programmes as an Assistant Professor (later Associate Professor) between 2016 and 2021.I frequently lecture, run workshops, and serve as a critic at various art institutions and design schools in Europe, Australasia, and the United States, and contribute writing to a range of international publications and journals. I am regularly involved in type design work: as custom type for various projects and clients, and as commercially available typefaces distributed by Swiss type foundry Lineto. I am a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and have works included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), the Chicago Design Archive, the Design Museum of Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London