Looking Back, Moving Forward
In many ways, 2025 was a challenging year, but thankfully there were many meaningful projects from clients old and new. We are grateful for the trust, support, and appreciation we have received that makes our work so rewarding. Stay tuned for more new work in the coming months.
1. The Zeiterion
The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center—affectionately known as The Z—has recently completed a major renovation, preserving its historic Art Deco details while enhancing the building for modern use. In support of the reopening, Stoltze Design collaborated with the Zeiterion marketing team to create an exciting, comprehensive visual identity system that bridges the theater’s storied past and vibrant future. The new logo reorients the name as a concise, standalone mark, anchored by the reimagined “Z” monogram—framed by radiating rays that express the theater’s role as both beacon and stage. The bold typography, ornamental borders, and vibrant color palette were inspired by the visual language of vintage playbills, the building’s historic details, and stage lighting respectively, and together form an unmistakable identity for this dynamic and culturally vital institution.
2. Peter Waite at The Wadsworth
Peter Waite’s large-scale paintings of sites across New England and historical locations throughout Europe investigate the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces, capturing the stillness of liminal environments as reflections on time and memory. For Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025, The Wadsworth partnered with Stoltze Design on its branding, catalogue, exhibition graphics, and print and digital marketing materials.
3. Harvard Dental Magazine
Founded in 1867, Harvard School of Dental Medicine is one of the nation’s preeminent schools of dental medicine. Harvard Dental, the School’s biannual publication, has been published in various iterations for decades. Stoltze Design was enlisted by HSDM to redesign the magazine, creating a fresh, modern look and establishing a cohesive visual identity that could extend across the School’s print and digital communications.
4. From The Vault
In May 2025, The Worcester Art Museum unveiled From the Vault, Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum, an exhibition to reintroduce an encyclopedic collection of tapestries, many of which were hidden from the public for decades. Stoltze Design was excited to partner with WAM on a catalogue to commemorate this important exhibition, and spark further academic interest in the stunning collection.
5. Radcliffe Magazine
The 2024–2025 academic year marked the 25th anniversary of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Institute of today is informed by the incredible legacy of Radcliffe College—an institution established to ensure women had access to a Harvard education at a time when the University wouldn’t admit them.
Working closely with the editorial staff, Stoltze was enlisted earlier this year to update the overall magazine design, integrate the 25th anniversary branding, and produce the 25th Anniversary issue of Radcliffe Magazine. The use of the line art and silhouetted portraits coupled with relevant archival and research imagery and an extended color palette resulted in a refreshed publication that also provides inspiration for other Radcliffe branded applications.
6. MIT pK-12 Initiative Website
MIT pK-12 Initiative is a newly formed group whose mission is to create meaningful learning experiences for young learners and educators around the world through co-design, capacity building, and impactful work at scale. Their vision is to transform education for young learners around the world toward greater purpose, meaning, and impact. Stoltze created a new pK-12 website to better showcase the group’s deep engagement with learners worldwide. Bright, dynamic visuals and bold typography based on MIT’s new brand guidelines highlight pK-12’s mission and project work, and a refined information architecture and user experience provide the group room for future growth.
7. Return. Roberta Paul
Roberta Paul’s artwork spans several media including drawing, painting, video, and installation, and they range in scale from the intimate to the monumental. Her keen eye and incisive use of line capture a wide range of subjects from people and animals to inanimate objects, all with the same invigorating energy. Stoltze Design is proud to have created the catalogue for Paul’s recent exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art which represented the artist’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date.
8. Groton Quarterly
Stoltze has been partnering with Groton School on their award-winning admissions suite and branding for the last 5 years. In late 2024, we began working on their quarterly alumni publication, giving the design an overall refresh, and also producing the related annual report.
Our approach to updating the Quarterly began with a simpler, bolder cover treatment, featuring ‘Groton’ as the magazine title, set in Berlingske—a modern interpretation of a classic calligraphy-built serif font—ensuring consistency with other Groton materials we’ve designed over the years. We are also incorporating the fonts Post Grotesk and Miller in various combinations for headlines and text, selected for their legibility and elegance. While the publication’s page size remains the same, we have restructured the underlying grid to accommodate more content and to enhance readability.
9. Walnut Hill School for the Arts
Walnut Hill School for the Arts partnered with Stoltze Design to create a suite of admissions brochures that reflect the school’s arts-first philosophy and vibrant, inclusive culture. The series includes five interconnected pieces—each highlighting a specific artistic discipline, plus one focused on academics—that put students front and center. Designed to feel personal, tactile, and worth keeping, the brochures capture Walnut Hill’s spirit as a place where disciplined academics and artistic exploration coexist, and where young artists are encouraged to discover both who they are and who they might become.
10. Spectrum Magazine
For nearly 20 years, MIT Spectrum has shared stories of MIT’s vision, impact, and community. With the launch of MIT’s Campaign for a Better World in 2016, the magazine became a key campaign vehicle and underwent a full redesign by Stoltze. The refreshed format introduced a more flexible, dynamic structure, while preserving the impact of the oversized piece. After our 10-year run designing this impressive print publication, the Spring 2025 issue marked the final hard-copy version, but it is still available digitally.
