Essentially a self-taught designer, Paul Elliman was a member of the City Limits Magazine collective (1984–1986) and then became Design Director of the British music magazine Wire (1986–1988) before embarking on a career as a freelance designer.

In 1991 he was awarded Design & Art Direction Gold and Silver medals for design and publication of an electronic journal that utilized fax and email. In 1992 he was the recipient of a Barclay’s New Stages prize for a collaboration with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher.

Recent work includes commissions from Princeton School of Architecture; a collaboration with cycling activists Critical Mass; a series of imaging test patterns with Xerox, for the American Institute of Graphic Arts; and cover designs for Everything Magazine.

His work has been exhibited internationally in, for example, The British Council and Tate Modern, as well as in smaller gallery shows. He has been a contributor to FUSE, the electronic type publication published by Font Shop International, and he has published essays in magazines as Eye and IDEA.

Elliman has taught in the Cultural Studies Department at Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London; The School of Visual Communications, University of East London; and at the University of Texas at Austin, and he has been a guest speaker and visiting critic at a number of schools.

He was a project tutor at the Jan van Eyck Academie, between 1996 and 1999, and has been an assistant professor at Yale School of Art since 1998. Currently he is also an advisor to the new Shanghai University of Art and Design, and a critic at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

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