Thomas Castro

Founder, Owner, Partner, Designer LUST/LUSTlab

LUST is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, and Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, based in The Hague, Netherlands. LUST works in a broad spectrum of media including traditional printwork and book design, abstract cartography and data-visualisations, new media and interactive installations, and architectural graphics. Moreover, LUST is deeply interested in exploring new pathways for design at the cutting edge where new media and information technologies, architecture and urban systems and graphic design overlap. This fascination led to establishing LUSTlab in the summer of 2010. LUSTlab is more than a new form of Research & Development. LUSTlab goes further than observing, inventing and producing, by means of forming a platform where knowledge, issues and ideologies can be shared.

Thomas has served in various design commissions and juries such as the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) and the Beijing Design Week, and has taught and given numerous workshops and lectures for diverse cultural institutes and organisations around the world. Since 2002, Thomas has taught Graphic Design and Typography at the Academy of Arts Arnhem (now ArtEZ University of the Arts) becoming the Head of the Graphic Design Department in 2012. Currently, he is working on developing a new MA program in design research for the ArtEZ School of Graduate Studies.