Other Means is a graphic design studio in Brooklyn, NY.

Other Means works with institutions, organizations, and brands who present, support, and contribute to contemporary culture. We design dynamic typographic identities and brand strategies that thrive in digital environments, and make books, exhibitions, signage systems, and websites that emerge from a deep engagement with our clients’ missions and histories.

We are not interested in neutral systems that transfer information. We play with words to shape meaning, challenge established traditions, and investigate popular visual culture to design new visual languages that comment on our present moment.

Over the last decade, the studio has launched new institutions, reintroduced legacy organizations, and worked one-on-one with directors, artists, and in-house teams. We collaborate closely, and stay involved long after roll-out, ensuring that the work we produce outlasts the moment in which it was conceived.

Brooklyn Museum, 2024. Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

Brooklyn Museum, 2024. Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

Brooklyn Museum, 2024. Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011. MoMA PS1, 2019. Photo: Tina Tyrell

Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus. Japan Society, 2023. Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

The Looking Glass. The Shed, 2021.

E-flux, 2021.

Arlene Shechet: Skirts. Pace, 2020.

Baggu: Hold Everything, 15 Years. 2022.

Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. 2017.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2014–2024.

James Fuentes Press, ongoing. Photo: Ethan Herrington

MIT Technology Review, 2015.

Rachel Comey, 2018.

The Shed, 2019.

Poetry Society of America, 2024. Photo: David La Spina

Brooklyn Museum, 2024. Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

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Contact

119 8th Street #202
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 622-0907
us@othermeans.us

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Teaching & Lectures

In 2013, Other Means co-founded Typography Summer School New York. After a five year break, the program returned in 2024, and will continue annually for the foreseeable future. Learn more.

The studio has lectured and led workshops at leading universities across the United States, including CCS Bard, Cornell University, Cranbrook, Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, Parsons, Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Yale School of Art. Internationally, we have visited Beckmans College of Design, ÉCAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, HfG Karlsruhe, and Werkplaats Typografie.

We occasionally host lectures in our studio under the name ‘Easy Lessoning.’ They occur randomly and are announced last minute. Subscribe to find out about the next one.

    Currently

  • Aanda Architects Website
  • Aperture Foundation Publication
  • Harvard GSD Website
  • James Fuentes Ongoing
  • KAJE Ongoing
  • Poetry Society of America Public Art
  • Philip Guston Foundation Website
  • Yale School of Art Website

    Selected Clients

  • Artnet Identity
  • Baggu Book
  • Brooklyn Museum Identity
  • CCVA at Harvard Website
  • The Drawing Center Website
  • E-flux Website
  • Forge Project Identity, Website
  • Forensic Architecture Exhibition
  • Greene Naftali Gallery Website
  • ICA Philadelphia Identity, Website
  • Japan Society Exhibition Design
  • Lighthouse Works Identity, Website
  • Matthew Marks Gallery Website
  • Mercer Union Website
  • MoMA PS1 Publication, Identity
  • The New York Times Illustration
  • Pace Publications
  • The Shed Identity, Signage, Art Direction
  • Storm King Art Center Publication
  • Verso Books Covers