Bio

Brian Johnson is a partner of Polymode, a bi-coastal, LGTBQ+ and minority-owned studio focusing on creative direction, design production, writing, and teaching. He has guest lectured at School of Visual Arts, Washington University, and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. His recent clients include the Studio Museum, Pulitzer Art Foundation, Phaidon Press, The New Museum, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum where his writing appears in Willi Smith: Street Couture. Born into a family of printers, Johnson is deeply invested in the production of good design without the expense of sacrificing our humanity or environment; meeting both the client and the producer in the middle to respect all avenues of time and budget in a hyper-paced world. Johnson holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.