Andrew Howard is a British-born graphic designer, educator, curator, and Design writer living and working in Porto since 1993. He is the founder of Studio Andrew Howard, an award-winning practice that specializes in Design work for cultural, educational and campaigning organizations and institutions. Much of the studio design work in recent years has been devoted to Editorial and Exhibition Design. He devised and is coordinator of the MA in Communication Design at ESAD, in Matosinhos, where he has taught since 1993. 

In 2013 he founded the Porto Design Summer School, an independent, annual course specializing in Editorial Design and led by a team of renown international designers. He is an original signatory of the “First Things First 2000” Manifesto and his essays about Design have been published in Eye Magazine, Adbusters, the Looking Closer anthologies, and other print and online publications. He is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD).