Andrew Johnson
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Collaborations with leading brands and agencies to shape and define comprehensive brand programs, from strategy through system design.








AboutAndrew Johnson is a design director and interdisciplinary creative with nearly 20 years of experience shaping brand identities, visual systems, and brand expression. His background spans in-house leadership, agency environments, and independent practice—currently serving as Design Director at Slope while running his own studio projects and partnering closely with founders, creatives, and embedded teams.

In design director roles at Character and Venables Bell & Partners, he led teams, set creative direction, and oversaw the development of brand identities, campaigns, and visual systems. His experience also includes contract collaborations with Hook, A Line, Siegel + Gale, Moving Brands, SYPartners, and Turner Duckworth.

Previously, he spent more than five years as a founding designer and partner at Un-, guiding branding and digital initiatives for early-stage companies. Earlier in his career, he taught graphic design at the Academy of Art University, where the imprint Exptype emerged as an internal naming system for his approach to visual systems, typography, and experimentation.

Today, he leads branding and visual-system work across technology, finance, gaming, healthcare, and emerging platforms—approaching brand as industry-agnostic when grounded in the right research, and helping organizations define who they are, how they communicate, and how they show up in the world.







Experience
Design Director
Slope
Feb 2025 – Present 

Design Director
Freelance
May 2021 – Present 

Associate Creative Director
Character
May 2019 – May 2022 

Associate Design Director
Venables Bell & Partners
Mar 2018 – May 2019 

Designer / Partner
Un-Studio
Sep 2012 – Feb 2018 

Senior Designer
Character
Sep 2007 – Jun 2012 

Graphic Design Instructor
Academy of Art University
Sep 2010 – Jan 2012





Agencies
Slope
Character  
Venables Bell
Hook
U.N.N.A.M.E.D.
A Line Studio
Turner Duckworth
Moving Brands
Siegel+Gale
SYPartners
Psyop
Attik

Exptypography@gmail.com
Linkedin
Contact



Index

Pylon


Rain

2025


Narrative

2025


 

Slope 


Hifi


Forge



Divine 

 2025


Exponent


MarqVision



National Grid 

 2024



Google

 2024


Cynch


Verizon


Spotter


Rhodie


Level


Sun Mountain


RH


Obello


Getlabs


Klaviyo


Ripple  Effect


EA Iron Man


EA Skate


Sila


Apple


ANZ Plus


Airbnb


Projector


Oura


Reebok





Exptype

San Francisco, CA