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 identities 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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2025
Poster, PublicationRituals I Can’t Complete2024PublicationQ4 → 1 Billion Poppy Seeds2024PublicationClothing Sale2024
PackagingMilk & Kisses2024
IdentityMimo2023
Art Direction Desires2022


















   PublicationQ4 → 1 Billion Poppy Seeds2024

Interview and short story printed for the exhibition of artist duo Ella and Cedric Steed at Gallery 4009. The duo was asked to create new works over a two-month period, during which they provided work-in-progress images that were used to highlight specific responses in the interview, visually connecting their evolving work to their ideas. The duo also provided a short story which was included as a loose insert.

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 January 2026