Brian Johnson Email & Phone Number

Brian Johnson is an award-winning designer, curator, and partner of Polymode studio where he focuses on amplifying marginalized and forgotten voices through poetic research, learning experiences, and impactful design. He has guest lectured and hosted workshops at the School of Visual Arts, the Walker Art Center, AIGA’s National Design Conference, his alma mater the Rhode Island School of Design, and is one of the founders of the online learning platform BIPOC Design History. As a curator, he is the author of Posters That Sing, an exhibition scheduled to open at Poster House museum in New York, with a focus on Indigenous-made works to combat erasure and decolonize design. Johnson is also a member of the Monacan Indian Nation which is based in central Virginia. Deeply invested in the production of good design without the expense of sacrificing our humanity or environment, he extends these values to his recent clients: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum where his writing appears in Willi Smith: Street Couture. His most recent publication, Queering the Grid: Reading Codes in Dan Friedman’s Teachings (with Silas Munro), has led him to his current design writing research on Friedman’s 1994, Radical Modernism, which will be approaching its thirty-year anniversary.

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  Rhode Island School Of Design

  Graphic Design