Paul Minott

Personal statement

My professional experience has been primarily as a graphic design consultant working in print, packaging and brand development. I have done this for both large and small consultancies, for my own partnership, and now for my own limited company. This experience naturally feeds into my teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

As my teaching has progressed however, I have become aware that students at both levels benefit from a richer diet of cultural history, and an engagement with issues beyond the mere mechanics of design. To this end, I have developed a number of projects and lectures about key figures in the history of visual culture, particularly in film and early twentieth-century avant-gardes. This now informs an additional post I have taken up within the School as Senior Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies.

My overriding interest with such material is how to make often quite complex and 'difficult' territory more accessible. How can key graphic design skills of writing, editing, montage and typography be used to achieve this?

Academic qualifications

• BA(Hons) Kent Institute
• MA London Institute

Professional qualifications

• BA (Hons) 1st Class Graphic Design
• MA Information Design

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) 1998

External examiners

• External Examinership in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts) 2007-2010
• External Examinership in Graphic Design at Gloucestershire University 2008-2012.

Other external roles

• July 2007 Appointment panel for Central St Martins Head of Year One, Graphic Design BA course

Teaching specialism

• Corporate and brand identity design
• Publishing
• Packaging and new product development
• History and contextual studies of graphic communication.

Current scholarship

I have been immersed in research concerning the life and work of Marcel Duchamp for some years now. This has taken me to several symposia, and visits to New York, Philadelphia, Switzerland and Munich. Following my involvement in the 'Duchamp in Herne Bay' Festival and Symposium of August 2013, I am currently investigating a joint exhibition concerning his mysterious life and work.

Recent professional updating

• Brand identity consultancy for Citigroup Europe, specifically developing literature identity and visual style for all European wide employee communications
• Developing an entire identity for print and web based financial services for all Diageo plc employees, shareholders and pensioners
• Designed interface iconography for Falcon Global 'Pathfinder' plant commissioning software, used in offshore mineral extraction
• Brand Identity for IDEA Engineers, UK
• Project management for Brand Identity for Armadillo Engineering, UK.