Meet our Faculty

Josh Singler

Graphic Design Faculty
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Josh Singler is an experienced graphic designer, visual storyteller, and educator who specializes in typography,

print, packaging, marketing, and brand identity for Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. Josh holds a Bachelor of Design Honours Degree from York University–Sheridan College’s YSDN program

(Toronto, ON), and a Master of Design Degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, BC) where he received the WA Architects Ltd. Master of Design Graduation Award for his thesis research.

Josh’s design practice is rooted in his queer experience and examines how one’s personal identity shapes creative possibilities, particularly in spaces that have often overlooked the voices of queer and feminist designers. Josh combines his reflexive thinking approach with a focus on creating socially innovative, human-centered design solutions. He aims to use his design practice and teachings to challenge existing boundaries and binaries in problem-solving.

Josh has taught in both the Undergraduate and Continuing Studies departments at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Alongside his teaching and design work, he runs Fruitcake Press (Fruitcake), an independent publishing initiative that embraces disorientation and flux as integral to the creative process. Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology and its exploration of the potential held within disorientation, Fruitcake encourages projects in art, design, and writing that challenge identity and invite relentless experimentation. Through this approach, Fruitcake fosters a reimagining of self and the world, promoting a more inclusive understanding of our place in it.

Through Josh’s professional work and educational endeavours, he fosters inclusive design solutions that challenge conventional perspectives with innovative and experimental approaches. Ultimately, he hopes to contribute to a more diverse and equitable design landscape for himself, his students, and the design community at large.