Paul Soulellis
Founding Member at Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Soulellis is an artist, educator, and experimental publisher based in Providence with nine years of formal experience in academic and curatorial roles and a decades-long practice in design and creative direction. As Associate Professor of Graphic Design and a former department head at RISD, he blends rigorous pedagogy with hands-on publishing projects that interrogate network culture, queer methodologies, and archival justice. He co-founded Queer.Archive.Work to provide material infrastructure for queer publishing, a practical extension of his writing and research published in venues like MIT Press and Rhizome. Paul’s background spans institutional branding (notably a transformative engagement with Esri) to founding independent studios, giving him a rare mix of corporate, non-profit, and DIY publishing fluency. He teaches type and printed web practices informed by a BArch from Cornell and type studies at Cooper Union, bringing spatial thinking to graphic systems. Less obvious: his practice continually marries archival labor with platform critique, turning publishing as a craft into an organizing strategy for community resources.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Principles of Typeface Design, Principles of Typeface Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtBachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture at Cornell UniversityGithub contributions (5)
soulellis/printedweb.org
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
soulellis/queer.archive.work
Jul 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1174 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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