Theo Inglis
Theo Inglis joined Birmingham City University in 2024 as a full-time lecturer on the BA Graphic Design course. He studied Graphic Design at Norwich University of the Arts and completed an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art.
Theo has over ten years of professional design experience, including three years working at a branding and packaging design agency in London, and most recently as a Senior Designer for Granta Magazine, one of the world’s leading literary publications. Working as an independent freelance designer since 2015, Theo has focused on typographically-driven design –particularly book design – for publishers, magazines, universities, cultural organisations and charities.
Alongside work as a practicing designer, Theo also writes about graphic design, for a wide variety of art and design magazines and websites. His main interests are design history and criticism. He is the author of two books; Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design (Batsford, 2019) and The Graphic Design Bible (Ilex Press, 2023). From 2016-18 he was a regular freelance reporter working for Grafik and Monotype.