Chad Kloepfer is an art director and graphic designer based in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and has since worked as the senior designer at the Walker Art Center, the art director of Artforum magazine, and in 2010 co-founded the studio Kloepfer-Ramsey-Kwon with Jeff Ramsey and Hyo Kwon. He currently works as the art director of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Selected Clients
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ARoS Museum, Artforum Magazine, Blaffer Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Canadian Center for Architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, Creative Time, Dia Art Foundation, e-flux, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Google, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, Haus der Kunst, ICA Boston, ICA Miami, ICA Philadelphia, Kunsthaus Bregenz, MIT List, MIT School of Architecture, MAXXI, MoMA, MoMA PS1, The Morgan Library & Museum, The New Museum, Pratt Institute, Roll & Hill Lighting, Schaulager, Sculpture Center, The Shed, Sternberg Press, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale School of Architecture.
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, softcover, 506 pages, 6.75 × 8.125 in., edited by Paul Walker, published by Harvard Design Press, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2023. Design assistance and custom typeface by Willis Kingery
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, softcover, 506 pages, 6.75 × 8.125 in., edited by Paul Walker, published by Harvard Design Press, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2023. Design assistance and custom typeface by Willis Kingery
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, gallery view, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2022. Photo by Justin Knight
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense, gallery view, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2022. Photos by Justin Knight
B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little Sister, softcover, 155 pages, 8.25 × 10.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2023
B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little Sister, softcover, 155 pages, 8.25 × 10.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2023
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, end of year exhibition, studios & seminars, title wall, 2023
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, end of year exhibition, prize winners / commencement, title walls, 2023
In Conversation series, softcover, 4.25 × 5.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2020–22
In Conversation series, softcover, 4.25 × 5.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2020–22
Pacing: Renée Green, softcover with jacket, 300 pages, 9 × 11.75 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2020
Pacing: Renée Green, softcover with jacket, 300 pages, 9 × 11.75 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2020
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko, gallery view, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2021
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko, gallery view, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2021
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping, softcover with punch binding, 168 pages, 9 × 12 in., edited by Dan Byers and Victoria Sung, published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Walker Art Center, 2021
Poster Kiosk, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2021
Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, softcover with jacket, 104 pages, 8 × 10 in., edited by Henriette Huldisch, published by MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2020
Architecture Itself: and Other Postmodernist Myths, exhibition banner, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2018
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, hardcover, 268 pages, 7.5 × 10.8 in., edited by Laura Mott, published by Cranbrook Art Museum, 2019
Fox typeface, detail from The Quick and the Dead, hardcover, 352 pages, 7 × 9.5 in., edited by Peter Eleey, published by the Walker Art Center, 2009
Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, title wall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2018
Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This it’s 2 Late: Vol. 2, postcard and gallery guide, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2020
The Artist’s Museum, hardcover, 256 pages, 8.5 × 11.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2016
2020 Talks, website design and programming, 2020
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, hardover with jacket, 288 pages, 9.6 × 12.3 in., edited by Scott Rothkopf, published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014
PPI / Pounds Per Image / Pratt Photography Imprint, identity, 2019
PPI #3, softcover, 32 pages, 6.75 × 9.75 in., edited by Shannon Ebner, published by Pratt Photography Imprint and Dancing Foxes, 2021
PPI #2, softcover with copper metallic ink, 32 pages, 6.75 × 9.75 in., edited by Shannon Ebner, published by Pratt Photography Imprint and Dancing Foxes, 2020
PPI #1, softcover with debossed image, 32 pages, 6.75 × 9.75 in., edited by Shannon Ebner, published by Pratt Photography Imprint and Dancing Foxes, 2019
Anna Oppermann: Drawings, softcover, 112 pages, 8.5 × 13.5 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by Inventory Press, 2020
2013 Carnegie International, title wall and signage, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2013
Maurizio Cattelan: All, as seen in the Netflix series Master of None, season 2 episode 1
Maurizio Cattelan: All, hardcover, 255 pages, 7 × 9.8 in., edited by Nancy Spector, published by Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011
Walker Expanded, identity, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005
Icon treatment, SPAN 2015, Google Material Design, New York, 2015
SPAN, softcover with heat embossed sleeve, 172 pages, 5.75 × 8.25 in., edited by Rob Giampietro and Amber Bravo, published by Google, 2015
Knight’s Move, softcover, 164 pages, 4.8 × 7.6 in., published by SculptureCenter, New York, 2010
Receiving Doors, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2019
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, hardcover with slipcase, 384 pages, 9.5 × 12.2 in., edited by Emma Enderby, published by The Shed, 2019
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, hardcover with slipcase, 384 pages, 9.5 × 12.2 in., edited by Emma Enderby, published by The Shed, 2019
Architecture and Its Orbits, poster, 20.25 × 20.25 in., MIT Department of Architecture, 2015
Dia Fall Night, invitation to Dia Art Foundation’s Fall Gala, 2012
Architecture Itself: and Other Postmodernist Myths, title wall, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2018
Lara Favaretto Ageing Process, softcover, 344 pages, 6.6 × 9.3 inches, edited by Lara Favaretto, published by MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2016
Business Cards, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2019
Boris Groys, Particular Cases, softcover, 296 pages, 5.2 × 8 in., published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2017
Museum Memories, softcover, 36 pages, 4.25 × 11 in., edited by Claire Barliant and Katarina Burin, self published, 2020
Museum Memories, softcover, 36 pages, 4.25 × 11 in., edited by Claire Barliant and Katarina Burin, self published, 2020
Gabriel Kuri: Nobody Needs to Know the Price of your Saab, softcover, 130 pages, 7.2 × 10.5 in., edited by Claudia Schmuckli, published by the Blaffer Art Museum, 2011
Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This it’s 2 Late: Vol. 2, title wall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2020
Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, hardcover with jacket, 348 pages, 9 × 12 in., edited by Katherine Brinson, published by Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018
Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, hardcover with jacket, 348 pages, 9 × 12 in., edited by Katherine Brinson, published by Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018
1-2-3-4-5, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2019
Paul Chan: New New Testament, hardcover, 1,082 pages, 8 × 11.8 in., edited by Karen Marta, published by Schaulager, Basel, 2014
Paul Chan: New New Testament, hardcover, 1,082 pages, 8 × 11.8 in., edited by Karen Marta, published by Schaulager, Basel, 2014
2020 Talks, website design and programming, 2020
2013 Carnegie International Identity Guide, softcover, 18 pages, 11 × 17 in., self published, 2013
Architecture Itself: and Other Postmodernist Myths, posters, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2018
Exhibition Directionals, 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2013
2020 Talks Posters: Fertility, Redress, Channeling, Friendship
In the Holocene, softcover with jacket, 380 pages, 5.1 × 7.8 in., edited by Joao Ribas, published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2013
Tote Bags, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2018–19
efa Project Space, A Wicked Problem, poster, 8.5 × 11 in., newsprint, 2014; As We Were Saying, broadsheet, 9 × 12 in., newsprint, 2015
Liz Magor: Blowout, gallery guide, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Unviersity, 2019
The Everywhere Studio, hardcover, 288 pages, 9.06 × 11.56 in., edited by Alex Gartenfeld, published by ICA, Miami, 2018
The Everywhere Studio, hardcover, 288 pages, 9.06 × 11.56 in., edited by Alex Gartenfeld, published by ICA, Miami, 2018
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love, title wall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2019
Architecture Itself: and Other Postmodernist Myths, gallery views, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2018
Fox Typeface
Fox Typeface, alternative characters
2013 Carnegie International Identity Guide, softcover, 18 pages, 11 × 17 in., self published, 2013
September 11, softcover, 248 pages, 9.6 × 13.2 in., edited by Peter Eleey, published by MoMA PS1, 2011
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love, postcard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2019
Geoffrey Farmer, softcover, 64 pages, 7.75 × 10.75 in., edited by Dan Byers, published by ICA/Boston, 2016
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, softcover with slipcase, 260 pages, 8.5 × 11 in., edited by Christoph Cherix, published by MoMA, 2014
The Quick and the Dead, hardcover, 352 pages, 7 × 9.5 in., edited by Peter Eleey, published by the Walker Art Center, 2009