Gunnar Swanson

Professor
graphic design, first year courses
MFA, California State University at Fullerton
swansong@ecu.edu
Jenkins Fine Arts Center
252-328-2839

Gunnar Swanson is a graphic designer with over thirty years of professional experience. His work has been honored with over 100 awards and publications. Dozens of his articles about graphic design have appeared in the academic and trade press and his essays have been reproduced in several anthologies of graphic design writing. He was the editor of the Allworth Press book Graphic Design & Reading, the co-editor of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Zed3 and has been invited to speak about graphic design and design education in the US, Australia, Canada, and England.

His MFA is in graphic design from California State University and his undergraduate degree is in art history from UCLA.