Detroit-based graphic designer specializing in branding and editorial design.
Portrait by Leah Wendzinski
Alyssa Arnesen is a Detroit-based graphic designer specializing in branding and editorial design. Her practice 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 Supper, a multidisciplinary creative agency based in Detroit and New York.
Recognition
It’s Nice That, 2025
Design Everywhere, 2025
Fonts In Use, 2025
Slanted #42: Books, 2023
  • Slanted #40: Experimental Type, 2022
  • Society of Typographic Arts, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018
  • For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook (Bloomsbury), 2019

  • Exhibitions & Collections
  • Field Day: Navy Pier, 2024
  • 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
    SAIC Undergraduate Exhibition: Sullivan Galleries, 2018
  • Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, 2017

  • Experience
  • Supper: Senior Designer (current)
  • Span: Senior Designer, 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
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