Emily Swenson
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Emily Swenson is a graphic designer and creative based in Chicago, Illinois. Her creative practice seeks to shape visual systems that feel both studied and instinctive, where design can become a dialogue between eras, mediums, and cultural cues. She is most inspired by the beauty found where simplicity meets emotional resonance, where forms become emblems of collective human understanding.



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2024Clothing Sale
Catalogue for Clothing Sale, the first project presented at Gallery 4009. Framed as a clothing sale, the finished piece features co-founders Carter Teranes and Emily Swenson modeling the garments themselves within Carter’s apartment, where the gallery operated. The images are unfiltered, intimate, and casually composed, offering a glimpse into both the physical space and the emotional atmosphere that defined the gallery’s beginnings. The design identity mirrors this closeness, allowing the publication to function as both sales catalogue and portrait of a shared domestic environment.

Gallery 4009 was a short-lived apartment gallery co-run by Carter Teranes and Emily Swenson as a way to explore the role of graphic design in the curation and presentation of art, specifically within a domestic setting. As designers acting as curators, each of the two exhibitions run made use of supplemental graphic materials in dialogue with the artist’s body of work.









© Emily SwensonLast Updated February 2026