Hiya folks. I'm Joey Sweener, a graphic designer and typographer living in Upstate New York and working with the cool, creative people at Syracuse University.
Syracuse University
Working as a Senior Designer in the Division of Marketing, I've been bringing the Syracuse University brand to life since 2022. Projects range from large-scale airport takeovers, to proprietary font development, and a whole lot more.
Oswego County Historical Society
Since joining the Board of Trustees in 2021, I've partnered with the Oswego County Historical Society to develop a renewed visual identity, resurrect their print newsletter, and overhaul their website to put volunteers, patrons and donors at the forefront.
Oswego County Business Magazine
Oswego County Business Magazine is a periodical with over thirty years of groundbreaking business and economic development journalism. Alongside editor and publisher Wagner Dotto, I revamped the magazine's visual language to honor this storied legacy.
“Support the Arts” Poster Series
My poster series turning a critical eye on the money-making operations and deeply-entrenched colonial ideologies of the art and museum worlds in the modern age.
Hey!
I'm Joey, a Syracuse-based graphic designer and creative technologist looking for more problems to solve, pixels to push, and type to kern.
🎵 LISTENING TO: Breach by Twenty One Pilots
📕 READING: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
📽️ WATCHING: Dimension 20: Gladlands on Dropout
Manifesto
“Kindness is like a breath. It can be squeezed out, or drawn in. You can wait for it, or you can summon it.To solicit a gift from a stranger takes a certain state of openness. If you are lost or ill, this is easy, but most days you are neither, so embracing extreme generosity takes some preparation. I learned from hitchhiking to think of this as an exchange. During the moment the stranger offers his or her goodness, the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement to the stranger. It takes some practice to enable this exchange when you don’t feel desperate.One might even call the art of accepting generosity a type of compassion. The compassion of being kinded.”— Excerpt from Kevin Kelly's "How Will the Miracle Happen Today?"
More About me
I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design and an Art History BA from SUNY Oswego, here in beautiful upstate New York. It's landed me jobs for the Oswego County Business Magazine, Syracuse University, and more. I am the youngest sitting board member at the Oswego County Historical Society, where I get to geek out about art history, Victorian-era Oswego, and design while making local history more exciting and approachable.When I'm not working, chances are you'll find me buried deep in a book (even though the stack of books on my nightstand says otherwise...), jamming out to some hardcore music, doing some personal art-making, or buying novelty coffee and craft beer (a particular guilty pleasure of mine!).If I weren't a designer, I'd probably take up life as a cartographer and draw maps all day long. Doesn't that sound rad as hell? Anyway! If you wanna view my resume, you can do that here (last updated: Sept. 2022).Thanks for stopping by. Make art, make rent, and help others do the same.
The typography across the site is set in Nunito Sans and Production Type's Newsreader. Website hosted by carrd.co. Portrait photo courtesy of my pal Shane Johnson. All thoughts and opinions expressed here and on Medium are mine, and do not reflect the opinions of current or past employers. Cool? Cool.
ephemera
One-offs, duds, scribbles and doodads. Find 'em all here, and check back regularly for more.
