A graduate and lecturer of the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he heads the Type and Sign Studio. He also teaches semiotics, and began lecturing at the Jagiellonian University in 2016. He was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 2013, has conducted workshops in Poland and abroad (including at the International Poster Triennial in Trnava, BWA Dizajn Gallery in Wrocław, Masaryk University in Brno, Reading University), and collaborates with Wrocław University on research. His designs include scientific and popular-science publications, and systems of visual identity. A design critic, Tomasz Bierkowski has published research articles on visual identity and a book titled O typografii (On Typography). In his research, he examines the relation between experience design and typography, and the implementation of design thinking.