Jessica Svendsen is a designer working in identity and editorial design. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, she is currently a Design Director at Work & Co. She’s previously worked as a designer at Pentagram, Apple, and Dropbox.

She currently teaches design at Yale University and the Pratt Institute. She previously taught at Parsons The New School, lectured at the AIGA, MICA, the Type Directors Club, and the Yale School of Art, and served as a guest critic at the California College of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts. 

Selldorf Architects    Art Direction: Michael Bierut, Pentagram

She received a MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art and a BA in English Literature from Yale University.

Pentagram Papers 44    Art Direction: Michael Bierut, Pentagram

Experience


Work & Co
Design Director
2021–current

Dropbox
Design Director
2016–2021

Apple
Designer
2015—2016

Pentagram
Designer
Team Michael Bierut
2013—2015

Teaching


Yale University
Lecturer
2019—Current

Pratt Institute
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Senior Thesis, Introductory and Advanced Typography,
Graphic Design Intensive
2014—Current

Parsons The New School
Instructor
Introductory and Advanced Typography
2014—2018

Yale University
Teaching Assistant
Visual Biography with Jessica Helfand
Typography I with Julian Bittiner
2011—2012

Education


Yale School of Art
MFA Graphic Design
2O13

Yale University
BA English Literature
2009
Distinction in the major

Select Clients


Association of Yale Alumni
Brearley School
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Kinfolk
Library of America
MIT Technology Review
The New York Times
NYU Abu Dhabi
Phaidon
Selldorf Architects
Sonos
Verso Books
Yale School of Architecture
Yale School of Management
Yale University Press

Perspecta 47: Money    Designed with Stefan Thorsteinsson

Select Interviews


2017
Dissection Podcast
 
2016
Working Not Working 
AIGA San Francisco 

2015
The Collective Podcast 
Designboom
Ligature 

2014
It's Nice That 
Type Worship 
Your Dreams My Nightmares
Communication Arts

Features


2017
AIGA Eye on Design  
It's Nice That 

2016
Brand New 
Fonts In Use 
Daring Fireball 

2015
Fast Company 
AIGA Eye on Design
Fonts In Use 

2014
Design Work Life 
Grain Edit 
Form Fifty Five 
It's Nice That

2013
But Does It Float
Fonts in Use
Wallpaper  

Publications


2015
Slanted Magazine 
Poster Tribune

2014
It's Nice That Annual
It's Nice That Cover 
Monotype's The Recorder 
Type Plus

Speaking


Yale University
April 2020

Yale School of Art
New Haven, Connecticut
February 2O18

MICA
Baltimore, Maryland
November 2O17

Smashing Conference
San Francisco, California
April 2O17

Type Directors Club
New York   
March 2O17

Smashing Conference
Barcelona, Spain   
October 2O16

AIGA San Francisco   
June 2O16

One Day Out
Odense, Denmark
April 2016

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