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Role

Joseph Rudi Pielichaty is a senior lecturer of Graphic Design and Year 1 Leader of BA Graphic Design and BA Motion Graphics. He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a personal and academic tutor as well as a member of the school's Athena SWAN group, contributing towards initiatves that champion gender equality and inclusive teaching practices across higher education.

Career overview

Joe is a multidisciplinary designer and educator, with over 15 years of professional experience. Prior to joining NTU, he worked as a graphic designer in advertising and creative communications and established an independent design practice in 2011 whilst studying for his MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London.

As an educator, Joe encourages his student's to be process-driven and disciplined in the act of play. In support of his teaching, Joe continues to develop his own work and research, often taking on the role of designer as author to produce publications, posters and prints using processes of photography, illustration, drawing and book making. His work tends to circle themes of time, memory and identity. 

Joe loves graphic design that makes room for poetry. He loves printmaking and its potential for imperfection (the smell of ink is an added bonus). He loves Polish poster design and feels especially connected to his heritage when admiring the work of Henryk Tomaszewski, Roman Cieślewicz, Andrzej Klimowski and Jan Mlodozeniec. He loves retro optometry signage, particularly if bedazzled in glowing neon. He loves graphic design that whispers more than it shouts, but if it has to shout, he'd like it to be startlingly sonorous and reverberating. He loves typography and lettering and takes great pleasure in getting to know new places through vernacular and environmental lettering. His favourite letter of the Latin (Roman) alphabet is the double-storied lowercase g, and he's also partial to the す ('su')  in Hiragana. He loves graphic design that is coded and subtle, allegorical and thought-provoking. He loves record covers and risograph printing, second hand book shops and tiramisu, printer's manicules and looking through the People's Archive of Graphic Design website.