Aggie Toppins

designer, writer, and teacher

tl;dr Zine Archive & Exhibition

2021 – PRESENT

I collaborate with illustrator Shreyas R. Krishnan to curate and maintain a zine collection featuring critical investigations in design and illustration in formats that are designed and illustrated. The project consists of an archive held in special collections at Washington University in St. Louis, a reading room at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and a traveling exhibition.

an image of an exhbiition space with a yellow wall, blue readers with zines on them, and little purple wall
an image of an exhibition space with blue readers that have zines on them
an image of an exhibition space with blue readers that have zines on them, a monitor displaying a zine, and a vitrine holding zines

Doing Things With Images, mica Pinkard Gallery, Baltimore, October 2022.

an image of an exhbition space with a yellow wall, blue readers with zines on them, and little purple wall

Shreyas and I designed the tl;dr brand identity based on the risograph ink colors available at the Sam Fox School and a custom alphabet made from pieces of tape and improvisational drawings. We also designed a risograph-printed catalog to document our acquistions.

a badge-like logotype in which letterforms seem to dance within a golden sunburst
purple catalog covers
interior spread with yellow endpapers and a table of contents
interior spread with an essay
interior spread with catalog listings and an illustration

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