Dresser Johnson

Dresser Johnson is a New York-based design studio. It was founded in 1999 by Kevin Dresser and Kate Johnson, and focuses on branding and identity design, with an emphasis on the use of typography; they now also do product design, and offer digital pictograms through the online shop , Space Dresser Johnson. Their work has been featured in Communication Arts. HOW, New York Newsday, Gothamist, Swiss Miss and PSFK.
Designers
Kevin Dresser (born 1971, Rochester, New York) has been designing with type and image since 1985, when he created his first commercial work while still in high school. Later part of New York's street art scene] , he received a degree in graphic design from Pratt Institute and completed a three-year digital font design apprenticeship under Jonathan Hoefler, and has had his work featured in many magazines. He was featured in the Art Directors Club's inaugural "Young Guns" exhibition in 1997, and his illustration and type design have been included in AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers. His work has been published in Beautiful Decay and the books 1000 Icons, Symbols and Pictograms (Rockport, 2006) and Art de Rue (Artifacts by Free Presse, 2004.
Kate Johnson (born 1973, Rochester, New York) holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She established her career as a senior designer at The Museum of Modern Art, where she gained recognition for the design of "Groundswell", the first large-scale exhibition installed at the newly renovated MoMA in 2005. . She has created exhibition branding and print programs for many New York cultural institutions, as well as book and catalogue designs.
Selected Works
The current Band-Aid logo was designed by Dresser Johnson in 2006.
Their Museum of Modern Art Pictogram Project is a edesign of the classic men's, women's and wheelchair access pictograms for the Mueum of Modern Art in New York. to offer an aesthetically beautiful movement in the work.includes some of the early 21st Century's most important pictogram designs
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Designed in 2005, the Brooklyn bunny logo is the first design to graphically anthropomorphisize the 's gothic arches to create the illusion that the bridge is hiding the ears of a rabbit.

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