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Paul Soulellis

Paul Soulellis (b. 1968) is a Providence, RI (was: New York)-based artist and creative director, maintaining his studio in Long Island City, NY. Paul was trained as an architect and is a graduate of Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He is the founder/director of Queer.Archive.Work, a non-profit community reading room, publishing studio, and community space, and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.

He created Library of the Printed Web, a curatorial project organized around artists who use screen capture, image grab, site scrape and search query to develop printed matter from content found on the web.

He founded the design firm Soulellis Studio in 2001 and produces work for clients like Cornell University, TED, Waterworks, Esri, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Municipal Art Society of New York. Creator of two free typefaces:

• Stetson (2012) is an experiment in geo-historical typography: The single-weight typeface is drawn from a very small sample of 19th century hand-drawn letterforms, found within an old photograph in a shed in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The sample, E. H. Stetson and Co, is surrounded by a display of shoes. Not far from where the photograph was found is the actual Stetson Shoe Co. factory building, which operated in Weymouth from 1885 until 1973. Stetson was created for Weymouths, a 12-volume book project commissioned by the 2012 b-side Arts Festival in Weymouth, England (part of the Maritime Mix / London2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea). Production by Thomas Jockin.
• Sélavy (2013), co-designed with Nina Stössinger, who writes: Sélavy is the result of a serendipitous collaboration with Paul Soulellis. For his project Library of the Printed Web, Paul was looking for a dotted typeface reminiscent of the punched-out caps on Marcel Duchamp's 1934 Green Box. As he could not find a typeface close enough, I [Nina] was spontaneously tempted to make one. This is it. Sélavy (named after Duchamp's pseudonym Rrose Sélavy) is a dotted typeface that does not follow a non-dotted model.

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