Design-led collaboration to bring clarity to brands, agencies and organizations.




Brand Design
Design Strategy

Design Systems

Visual Identity
Bespoke Typography
Art & Creative Direction
Data Visualization

Brand Guidelines








Digital & Interactive
Wireframes
Website Design

Product & Interface
Information Architecture

Content Strategy & Structure

Motion & Interaction

Design Systems
Development Collaboration



Brand Extension
Asset Creation
Launch & Activation
Campaign Creative

Visual Toolkits

Presentations & Decks

Social  Toolkits
Email and Digital Ads
Packaging



AboutAndrew Johnson is a design director and interdisciplinary creative who collaborates with agencies and brands to help organizations define who they are, what they communicate, and how they show up in the world.

He is currently the Design Director at Slope, a brand and creative agency partnering closely with high-growth startups and venture firms. There, he leads teams in the development of brand identities, visual systems, and web across industries that include technology, finance, lifestyle, and emerging platforms.

His background spans design leadership roles at Character and Venables Bell & Partners, along with more than five years as a founding designer and partner at Un-. 

Andrew has also collaborated on a contract basis with Hook, A Line, Siegel + Gale, Moving Brands, SYPartners, and Turner Duckworth. Earlier in his career, he taught brand design at the Academy of Art University, where his moniker Exptype emerged as an internal framework for his approach to visual systems, typography, and experimentation.







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 

2025


Hifi

Forge


Divine 
 2025

MarqVision


National Grid 
 2024


Google
 2024

Cynch

Verizon

Spotter

Rhodie


Level
Sun Mountain
RH
Obello
Getlabs
EA Iron Man
Ripple  Effect
Klaviyo

EA Skate

2021


Capti

2021


Nuro

Sila

2020


Apple
ANZ
Airbnb

Projector


Oura


Reebok
GoPro
2018

Samsung
Nike
2011

Archive

Exptype

San Francisco, CA