Brian Johnson, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation, is an award-winning designer, writer, and curator. He is a partner of Polymode where he focuses on amplifying marginalized and forgotten voices through poetic research, learning experiences, and impactful design. He has guest lectured and hosted workshops at the School of Visual Arts; the Walker Art Center; AIGA’s National Design Conference; his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design; and is one of the founders of the online learning platform BIPOC Design History. As a curator, he is the author of Posters That Sing, an exhibition scheduled to open September of 2026, at Poster House museum in New York. Deeply invested in the production of good design without the expense of sacrificing our humanity or environment, he extends these values to his recent clients: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, A24, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Johnson is the recipient of the 2023-24 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators where he is focusing on Indigenous-made works to combat erasure and decolonize design. The three-part article series, “Designing a History of Indigenous Graphic Artists”, “How can Posters Sing?”, and “Can We Find Our Way to Indigenous Joy?”, appear on Hyperallergic.