Lead Tutor, Typography in BA Graphic Communication Design

The opportunity

BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins is a three-year undergraduate course with a typical enrolment of more than 450 students. The course supports interdisciplinary, hybrid and specialist designers, has a longstanding reputation for experimental approaches to typography.

The role of the Lead Tutor, Typography will be to work across student groups and cohorts, introducing typographic practice and supporting the development of a diverse range of student projects in areas ranging from letterpress to web typography. You will also contribute to the broader development of the course and curriculum and liaise between GCD’s academic team and technical teams in workshops such as letterpress.

About you

We are looking for a motivated individual with experience teaching in a higher education context. You will have a distinct and dynamic perspective on typography. You will be actively engaged in practice or research directly relevant to the Graphic Communication Design community at CSM. You will have a postgraduate qualification, or equivalent experience, and a track record of contributions to the advancement of typographic approaches in the context of graphic and/or communication design.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Relocation assistance is available.

If you have any queries about this role please email the CSM Staffing Team: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.

What we offer

We are UAL

Central Saint Martins is a world-leading centre for arts and design education. Its reputation stems from the creative energy of its staff and students and the stellar achievements of its graduates nationally and internationally. The nine programmes at CSM explore the boundaries of their discipline. Students and staff are continually alert to new ideas, and are curious and restless in developing beyond the expected norms of their subject, so emerging work is at the forefront of its area. CSM sits at the heart of London’s creative scene, and of one of Europe’s most dynamic new culture and innovation quarters at King’s Cross, making the college increasingly important to London’s cultural life, and indicative of our general desire to open up CSM to as broad an audience as possible.

The Graphic Communication Design programme at Central Saint Martins facilitates a large heterogeneous community of students and staff to thrive through communication practice in diverse and meaningful ways. We ask and answer questions through and about graphic communication design. The staff are a forward-thinking and outward-facing team who value pedagogic innovation, critical practice and explorative approaches to the possibilities of the discipline.

Our culture