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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, user research, 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...
zine, print 
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, print, 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, poster design, 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.
silkscreen, letterpress, print 
Division of Labor Catalog 
Exhibition catalog for Division of Labor, featuring the work of 11 artists, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 2012.
print, artist catalog, 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, print, 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, print, 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, homemade wood type, 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, print, 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, wedding, 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, print, 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, poster, 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, print, publication design 
AnimalNews 
Quarterly newsletter for Morris Animal Foundation for which I got to look at cute pictures of animals all day.
print, 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, print, 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, print, publication design