Rui Costa is a lecturer in higher education. He has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the University School of the Arts in Coimbra, and founded the bureau Design Azulquente. Since 2001, he has been professor at the Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, where he also conducts research at ID+, the Institute for Media Design and Culture. He completed his PhD, researching information design, in 2014.