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Aggie Toppins is a graphic designer.
The Good Service
The Good Service was my MFA thesis project at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I spent a year examining American funeral and memorial customs to find ways...
mfa thesis
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user research
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web design
Zines by Octagon
I make zines about the intersection of memory, mortality, and simulacra under the handle Octagon. Octagon issues 1 and 2 are on sale at Quimby's in...
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Story Inside
This zine documents a co-creational exercise that explored collecting as memorial. I sent 18 people mason jars and asked them to place objects inside that tell a...
mfa thesis
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print
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zine
Westing
Poster series for Jason Meyer's solo show, Westing, which explored humankind’s relationship to nature. Each poster featured an image of a landscape with all its...
print
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poster design
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artist catalog
Vote For Lincoln
This 12.5"x19" poster was silkscreened and letterpressed using antique wood type from The Globe Poster Print collection in Baltimore. Edition of 35.
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letterpress
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Division of Labor Catalog
Exhibition catalog for Division of Labor, featuring the work of 11 artists, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 2012.
print
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artist catalog
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publication design
All We Need Is A Template
This publication examines life as a template-based experience. It makes fun of contemporary trends toward "prosumerism" and "interconnectivity" by presenting...
zine
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print
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writing
Death of the Author
12.5"x19" silkscreen print featuring obliterated typography and a split fountain gradiant. Text reads "every text is eternally written," from Roland Barthe's The...
silkscreen
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print
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typography
Jolly Greetings
5.5"x4" letterpressed greeting cards starring my basset hound, Jolly. For this project, I experimented with making my own wood type. As you can see,...
letterpress
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homemade wood type
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features a dog
AIGA Chicago Snapshot Book
I designed this book with my good friend Frances Close for AIGA Chicago. To demonstrate the value of collaboration, we put together seven teams of Chicagoland...
annual report
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print
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collaboration
Our Wedding
These are some things I designed for our wedding, a giant camp trip in Baraboo, Wisconsin: My friend Jaime Endick took some lovely photos: We had lots...
print
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wedding
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buttons are fun
Sympathy Card Set
Letterpressed set of three sympathy cards, designed to provide ongoing support to a bereaved friend. Each card is meant to be sent over the course of a year. The...
letterpress
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print
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stationery
It Could All Change
3-color silk screen print in two editions. This is the Small and Tidy edition of 10. 12.5"x19" with a silver-toned background. This is the Large and...
silkscreen
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poster
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print
Guild for the Blind Annual Report
Annual report for the Guild for the Blind, an Illinois nonprofit that helps the sight impaired.
annual report
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print
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publication design
AnimalNews
Quarterly newsletter for Morris Animal Foundation for which I got to look at cute pictures of animals all day.
print
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publication design
Memento Mori Greeting Cards
Series of letterpress greeting cards based on 18th-century gravestone symbols. Memento Mori, which means "Remember you will die," were popular reminders at that...
letterpress
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print
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stationery
Morris Animal Foundation 2007 Annual Report
Annual report for Morris Animal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds veterinary research. The report celebrated unique animal bodies while telling the...
annual report
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publication design