Alyssa is a Detroit-based graphic designer with a love of typography, materiality and storytelling. She is currently a senior designer practicing with the fine folks at Span and is open for freelance opportunities.

Portrait by Leah Wendzinski.

Recognition

Tokyo TDC: Annual Awards—2021

Communication Arts: Typography Annual 11—2021

Society of Typographic Arts: STA 100 Judge’s Choice (Tré Seals, Vocal Type Co.)—2020

For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors & Students: Featured Projects—2019

The Design Kids: Featured Graphic Designer—2018

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection: Acquisition—2018

Kantar: Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist—2018

Michigan Alumnus: Featured LEAD Scholar—2016

Exhibitions

ReFramed and ReCovered—Chicago Architecture Center, 2023

Free & Open Chicago—Design Museum of Chicago, 2022

Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics—Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2021

Typeforce 11—Co-Prosperity Sphere, 2020

Show Don’t Tell: The 2018 VCD Show—Design Museum of Chicago, 2018

SAIC Spring Undergraduate Exhibition—Sullivan Galleries, 2018

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago—2018

BFA: Emphasis in Visual Communication Design

University of Michigan—2013
BBA: Emphasis in Marketing, Minor in Spanish

Contact

alyss.arnes[at]gmail.com

@alyssaarnesen