Profile

Paul Soulellis (b. 1968) is a New York-based artist and creative director, maintaining his studio in Long Island City, NY. He explores memory and representation through photography, typography, language and the book form. Current work includes Weymouths, a 12-book project commissioned for the 2012 B-side Multimedia Arts Festival, to be installed in Weymouth, England for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Paul was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2011, where he produced Memory Palace. Other recent projects include 273 Relics for John Cage (A Likeness Is an Aid to Memory) at the University of North Carolina (2011) and Venetian Suite (2010) — a four-book study of sequence, structure and urban narrative.

He founded the strategic design firm Soulellis Studio in 2001 and produces award-winning work for clients like Cornell University, TED, Waterworks, Esri, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Municipal Art Society of New York. His work allows him to collaborate closely with leading creative thinkers in design, business and technology — Richard Saul Wurman, Jack Dangermond, Nancye Green, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Philip K. Howard and John Seely Brown, among others. His work is featured regularly on design blogs and online galleries and he is a contributing author to the web design journal The Manual.

Paul was trained as an architect and is a graduate of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He created the humorous Twitter site Tweeji.com in 2009 (with Krate) and co-hosted the Inaugural Salon in Washington D.C. with Chad Evans. He speaks regularly on communications and information design and has been a visiting critic at Cornell University, Columbia University and the City University of New York.

Soulellis.com is Paul’s online design journal, featuring ephemera, commentary and project work, since December 2001. The current version was built by Krate and launched in January 2011.

Photo: Wendy Richmond.