About Post Typography

"Wayne and Garth meets Chermayeff & Geismar."

Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant-garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. In 2007, Strals and Willen incorporated Post Typography as a full time design studio, where they continue to work for a variety of clients including The New York Times, U.S. Green Building Council, and Random House. Their work has received numerous fancy design awards and has been featured in such books as Ellen Lupton's textbook Graphic Design: The New Basics, Phaidon's Area 2, and Taschen's Contemporary Graphic Design, as well as a new monograph of the studio's work by European publisher Pyramyd Editions. Post Typography have appeared in multiple design and art exhibitions, and their posters are collected by high school punk rockers and prominent designers (whom they consider equally important). Strals and Willen teach classes in design and typography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and have lectured at the Cooper Union, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and Harvard University among others. The studio recently wrote and designed Lettering & Type, a book on lettering and typeface design published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2009.


SOME OF OUR CLIENTS INCLUDE

AIGA
Artscape
Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts
Bloomberg
Broadcloth
Business Week
Conde Nast Portfolio
Current Gallery
Dan Deacon
DMJM+Harris
Double Dagger
Fast Company
GOOD Magazine
Hamilton Film Group
Houghton Mifflin
Hudson Valley Contemporary Art Center
Johns Hopkins Film Festival
Johns Hopkins University
Maharam
Marine Parade Records
Maryland Institute College of Art
The McKinsey Quarterly
Metropolis Magazine
Monitor Records
Monozine
National Building Museum
The New York Times
New York Magazine
NYLON Magazine
The Ottobar
PRINT Magazine
Princeton Architectural Press
Random House/Doubleday
Reptilian Records
teNeues Publishing Group
Thrill Jockey Records
Sonar
SpliceToday
SPIN Magazine
University of Baltimore
U.S. Green Building Council
Videosyncratic
WIRED Magazine


Please contact us for more information about our capabilities and work experience with a particular type of project, audience, or client.