About Us
We are a Baltimore, NYC, and Atlanta-based creative agency making ambitious work in print, digital, conceptual, and built environments.
The design partnership of Topos Graphics + Post Typography helps cultural and change-making clients amplify their voices through iconic and iconoclastic design. We support their missions with a wide range of services that include branding and logos; messaging and design strategy; websites and digital media; signage, placemaking, and environmental graphics; publication design and illustration; video, animation, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff that is too long to list here.
Who We Are
The design partnership of Topos Graphics + Post Typography is an experienced team of creative problem solvers who like beautiful type, unusual architecture, bad puns, and new challenges.
Founded in 2007 by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography has enlivened museums and theaters, brightened bookshelves and bars, and elevated the work of innovators large and small. In 2019 Post Typography formed a partnership with NYC- and Atlanta-based studio Topos Graphics that leverages Topos’ extensive experience working for cultural, non-profit, and commercial clients that include Knight Foundation, The Jewish Museum New York, MoMA PS1, David Stark Design and Production, and KIND Healthy Snacks.
Founding Partners Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen continue to advise the TG+PT partnership in parallel with new ventures.
Who We Work With
Our studios regularly collaborate on a diverse array of projects for clients that include cultural innovators, well-known institutions, and leading nonprofits.
We’ve partnered with museums and architects; high-profile advocacy organizations; colleges and independent media outlets. We also appreciate the finer things in life, and our designs grace craft beer cans, restaurant windows, and even the shelves of high-end cannabis dispensaries.
ARTS + CULTURE
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts
Beach House
Future Islands
Maryland Film Festival (MdFF)
Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
Sony Music Entertainment
Thrill Jockey Records
WYPR Public Radio
DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY
Figure 53
Maharam
Smilebooth
Sonos
Terbium Labs
Type Supply
EDUCATION
Baltimore Collegetown Network
Goucher College
Johns Hopkins University
MICA
The New School
ARCHITECTURE + SUSTAINABILITY + DEVELOPMENT
AIA National
Greenbuild Expo
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Green Building Council
Waverly Main Street
FOOD + DRINK + WEED
2SP Brewing
Charm City Cakes
Fenario Farms
Union Craft Brewing
PUBLISHING
Atlantic Magazine
ESPN Magazine
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Penguin / Random House
Simon & Schuster
teNeues Publishing Group
Time Magazine
Washington Post
WIRED Magazine
Press + Recognition
Post Typography’s work has been published internationally and has received lots of fancy-pants design awards.
We’ve been recognized by the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, Print Magazine, the Society of News Design, and the Society of Publication Designers among others. Publications of the studio’s work include a Post Typography monograph by French publisher Pyramyd Éditions and appearances in such books as Taschen’s Contemporary Graphic Design and Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips’ Graphic Design: The New Basics. Our work has appeared in numerous design and art exhibitions, and our posters are collected by high school punk rockers and prominent designers (whom we consider equally important).
A few articles + Interviews
Communication Arts
Magazine feature on Post Typography, our studio, history, and design approach
Technical.ly
Post Typography founders Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals on the importance of ambitious clients, new challenges, and creating community
Atlantic CityLab
Article about our Branding Politics panel discussion in DC
Creative Boom
Emily Gosling gives a shout out to our recent projects and new website
FastCo.Design
“How Two Graphic Designers Created One Of Baltimore’s Hardest Hardcore Bands”
Co-Lab: Collaborative
Design Survey
An interview with partners Bruce and Nolen
Oh Beautiful Beer
Our design work for 2SP gets some love from the premier beer design blog
Print Magazine
The process and story behind a killed cover design for Time Magazine
HOW Magazine
HOW Blog visits the Post Typography studio
Swiss Miss
Gets her “mind blown” on our old website
Brand New
This popular design site reviews our new work for MdFF and the Parkway Theatre
Washington Post Magazine
Bruce Willen discusses the state of 2018 political branding
Washington Post
We were the first to write about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s great campaign branding
CommArts
Feature on our signage designs for the City of Baltimore
Baltimore Magazine
A look at our 25,000 sq. ft. underwater light and sound installation for the Light City Festival
Baltimore Business Journal
Post Typography takes on everything from beer cans to Art and Politics
City Paper
A lovely review of our War of 1812-themed art exhibition, OSAYCANYOUSEE
Metropolis
Post Typography + Ed Fella in conversation at the New York Art Directors Club
8 Faces Magazine
Issue #1 includes a Post Typography feature and interview
The Italian Touch
Features our Racism Erases Face poster
