Joe Phelan
Designer & researcher

I work across visual identity, digital design and editorial, alongside independent projects that move between design, writing, research and moving image.

A curious observer of film, literature, futures thinking, and the currents that shape society and politics.

Ultimately, interested in ideas and the forms they inhabit.

Contact

Available for freelance and collaborative projects.

joe@narratology.xyz

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Experience

Once, a junior designer at Red&Grey, Dublin↗, working across branding and communication design. Later, at IADT Dún Laoghaire↗, as a UX/UI designer and researcher on Mythcloud.eu↗, an EU-funded project exploring and documenting European mythologies. Then at SOOT, NYC↗, designing and prototyping interfaces for a self-organising file system.

Now, working with Bullet Creative↗ across a range of projects.

Bullet Creative

Designer
(Contract)

2026 -

SOOT, NYC

Digital designer
(Contract)

2025 - 2026

Freelance Designer

Collaborators include: Netflix, Peroni, Paramount+, Service95, The Royal Irish Academy of Music, The Hive Agency, Started Marketing & PR, Institute of Art Design & Technology Dun Laoghaire, Aalto University

2023 -

Institute of Art, Design and

Technology, Dún Laoghaire

UX/UI designer & researcher with the Digital Mythologies Project, led by Aalto University and funded by the EU

Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire

UX/UI designer & researcher with the Digital Mythologies Project, led by Aalto University and funded by the EU

2024 - 2025

Red&Grey, Dublin

Junior designer

2023 - 2024

Bad Apple Creative

Design intern (Part-Time)