Timothy Earl Neill

Timothy Earl Neill joined TCU’s Department of Design as a full-time Instructor of Graphic Design in January 2024. In addition to teaching, Neill is an active artist and designer with extensive experience in the field. He also provides strategic planning and oversight for the Department of Design FAB Lab.

Neill holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and a BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His work has been showcased in group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe and is part of multiple collections. His artistic practice encompasses a diverse range of media, including 3D scanned artifacts, CGI rendering, video, light boxes, and mixed media sculpture.

As an educator, Neill has taught at multiple universities, focusing on digital fabrication, additive and subtractive fabrication, industrial design, furniture design, graphic design, human-centered design, sculpture, 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D rendering. His approach to teaching emphasizes experiential learning and critical thinking, preparing students to engage in innovative, real-world design challenges.

In addition to his academic career, Neill has over a decade and a half of experience working as a designer, most notably as an Industrial Designer at Ziba Design, a global innovation and design consultancy based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in Tokyo, Japan. Ziba is renowned for creating iconic products and industry disruptions and has developed design solutions for major clients such as Adidas, FedEx, REI, Reebok, Daimler, and P&G, in both digital and physical environments. Neill now leads Artificial Wave Pool, a multidisciplinary design agency that provides experimental and research-based design solutions. Through a global network of artists and designers, Neill bridges the gap between commercial and cultural projects of varying scales, collaborating with clients such as HP, Dell, UCSD Medical Center, Lexar, MOCA Chicago, and Printed Matter in NYC.