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We embrace complexity.
 
MATTER is the design consultancy founded with printing presses, who then opened a bookstore for designers, revolutionaries, and other thinking persons—and now—offers frameworks for ethics, models for change, and change-thinking for design’s role in the communities where we live and work. We are pro-labor, pro-queer, and pro-body autonomy. We work with organizations and individuals who are values-aligned.
 
We are storytelling and culture. We help the good guys win. You can call us design activists if you like.
 
While we haven’t done it all, we’ve done a lot. We’ve shared our love of design with auditoriums of thousands, created hundreds of brand strategies, designed interior experiences, experimented with large-scale concrete typography for public art, curated national conferences, and created a series of tabletop games with a double-degreed PhD|MD. MATTER is seasoned in experimentation.
 
We are genuinely excited to work with people who are starting something or trying to make a change. This is just a small part of our story. Tell us yours.
 
~ Rick Griffith and Debra Johnson, Partners

What we did…

Atomic Cowboy Custom Water Bottle

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Fat Sullys Pizza and Denver Biscuit Company, 2015

Atomic Cowboy Custom Baseball Cap

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Fat Sullys Pizza and Denver Biscuit Company, 2015

Atomic Cowboy Custom Match Books

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Fat Sullys Pizza and Denver Biscuit Company, 2015

Fat Sullys Pizza Box

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Fat Sullys Pizza, 2015

Tour de Fat Brand

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Fat Sullys Pizza and Denver Biscuit Company, 2015

Revised Type Design

TYPE DESIGN
Client: Kcymaerthere, 2018

Ethics of Critique Lecture Poster

POSTER DESIGN
Client: RMCAD VASD Program Lecturer: Paddy Johnson, 2012

Contemporary Art is an Easy Thing to Hate Lecture Poster

POSTER DESIGN
Client: RMCAD VASD Program Lecturer: Simon Critchley, 2011

Art For Obama

BOOK FEATURE
Included in book project, 2009

MATTER Holiday Printsale Invite

PROMOTION
Client: MATTER, 2019

Housefish Advertising Collage

COLLAGE / Brand Design
Client: Housefish Furniture, 2017

G.I. Joe Film Festival Poster (G.I. Joe)

POSTER
Client: G.I. Joe Film Festival, 2011

Work & Class Modular Interior Signage

SIGNAGE
Client: Work & Class Restaurant, 2014

Patient Care Guide to Dementia

BOOKS
Client: Alumia, 2019

Urban Forest Project

OUTDOOR
Outdoor banner program, and mentorship project
Client: AIGA/Urban Forest Project, 2006

War on Drugs Concert Poster

POSTER
Client: Mission Ballroom, 2022

Jewish Decalogue Poster

POSTER
CLIENT: Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, 2010

T-Shirt Swag

BRANDED EPHEMERA
Client: Stem Ciders, 2017

Custom 64 oz. Growler

BRANDED EPHEMERA
Client: Stem Ciders, 2017

Spiced Blackcurrant Cider Series Bottle Design

BRANDED EPHEMERA
Client: Stem Ciders, 2016

Pommeau Packaging 12 Months Aged (Fortified Wine)

PACKAGING
Client: Stem Ciders, 2018

Olivia Rodrigo Concert Poster

POSTER
Client: Mission Ballroom, 2022

Touch Book Design

BOOK
Interior and Exterior Design
Client: Rockport Publishers, 2002

Eye Level

MAGAZINE
Interior and Exterior Design
Client: Invisible Museum, 2006

Ben Kronberg Show POster

POSTER
CLIENT: Ben Kronberg, 2006

Work & Class Staff T-shirt

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Work & Class Restaurant, 2014

Art for Obama - Change

SCREENPRINT / On Wood
Client: Democratic National Convention, 2008

Work & Class Custom Check Presenter

BRAND EPHEMERA
Client: Work & Class Restaurant, 2014

G.I. Joe Film Festival Poster (Cobra Commander)

POSTER
Client: G.I. Joe Film Festival, 2011

Let's Revise Pro-Comp

INFORMATION DESIGN
Client: A+ (Education Non-Profit), 2015

Buy Nothing Day, 2003

POSTER
Client: Adbusters Magazine, 2003

TypeSets Exhibition Poster

POSTER
Exhibition curation, design, installation
CLIENT: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003

Downsizing the Image Factory

POSTER, PROGRAM, and PROMOTION
CLIENT: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005

MATTERIAL Underware - Modeled by Perry Elena

MATTERIAL PRODUCT
Client: MATTER, 2008

Action Bronson and Earl Sweatshirt

POSTER
Client: Mission Ballroom, 2022

Erykah Badu Concert Poster

POSTER
Client: Mission Ballroom, 2022

Girls Rock Showcase Poster

POSTER and BRAND ASSETS
Client: Girls Rock Denver, 2013

Typographic Codex Design and Installation

PUBLIC ART
Client: RMCAD, 2007

Seeking New Suprematist Forms Through Typography

BOOK
Design, writing and letterpress printing, 2003

Sans Titre Exhibition Poster

EXHIBITION POSTER
CLIENT: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002

TypeTogether Promotion

SCREEN-PRINTED POSTER
CLIENT: TypeTogether
Promotion for fledgling type foundry, 2007

Art for Obama - Progress

SCREENPRINT / On Wood
Client: Democratic National Convention, 2008

Housefish Advertising Collage

COLLAGE / Brand Design
Client: Housefish Furniture, 2017

SpectraCube Game Design

GAME DESIGN
Game design, Brand design and Game Mechanics
Client: Funnybone Toys, 2010

Spirot Game Design

GAME DESIGN
Game design, Brand design and Game Mechanics
Client: Funnybone Toys, 2010

MATTERIAL Promotion

PRODUCT/BRAND
MATTERIAL Brand design, Product development
Client: MATTER, 2007

Provocative Graphics Book Design

BOOK
Interior and Exterior Design
Client: Rockport Publishers, 2002

Graphic Design Definition

DESIGN THEORY/WRITING
Client: NA, 2006