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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2023Milk and Kisses
Album redesign for Milk and Kisses, the 1996 Cocteau Twins record of the same name. Released at the close of the band’s career and amid the dissolution of a romantic relationship between two members, the album carries the quiet weight of an ending. The visual system reflects this emotional undercurrent through the interplay of ghostly, diffused imagery and intimate fragments of the human body like skin, strands of hair, the curve of a lip. These elements surface and recede across the compositions like sensory afterimages, evoking memories of touch that feel both immediate and unreachable.

Soft focus, atmospheric layering, and gradual visual fading mirror the record’s sense of suspended time, where love lingers in a state between presence and disappearance. The result is a language of haunting closeness — a romance rendered as something fragile, illusory, and already in the process of fading.








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