Information — Alyssa Arnesen

Detroit-based graphic designer specializing in branding and publication design. Open for freelance opportunities

Portrait by Leah Wendzinski

Alyssa Arnesen is a Detroit-based graphic designer specializing in branding and publication design. Her practice balances logic with playfulness and is inspired by typographic expression, materiality, and the blending of analog and digital ways of making.

She has experience collaborating with both small start-ups and multinational corporations and is currently a Senior Designer at Span, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Chicago.

Recognition
Slanted #42: Books
Slanted #40: Experimental Type
Society of Typographic Arts
Tokyo TDC
Communication Arts
The Design Kids

Exhibitions & Collections
Kind Words II: You Are Beautiful Gallery, 2023
Free & Open Chicago: Design Museum of Chicago, 2022
Typeforce 11: Co-Prosperity Sphere, 2020
Show Don’t Tell: Design Museum of Chicago, 2018
Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection: SAIC Digital Collections, 2018

Experience
Span: Senior Designer (current), Designer
Thirst: Design Apprentice
Weber Shandwick: Assistant Account Executive
Neo@Ogilvy: Digital Advertising Intern

Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: BFA
University of Michigan: BBA

Contact
alyss.arnes@gmail.com
@alyssaarnesen