About

Emil Þór Gunnarsson is an Icelandic graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from Konstfack. His work spans self-initiated projects and commissions across visual identity, typography, and printed matter.

Emil is also the co-founder of Cornershop Studio, together with Una Hallgrímsdóttir. The studio works across design, community, and sustainable food. 

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Posters for Cornershop

Posters, menus and packaging for Cornershop. 

Illustrations for “The Supercat from Addis” by Maja Sten.
 Posters (2024—2026)

LB Collage

A series of collage posters composed from printed motifs found in the archive of Lindströms Boktryckeri in Växjö. During a visit to the former printing house, metal clichés from the archive were inked and printed by hand. The resulting prints were later scanned and assembled into new compositions.

Size: 500 × 700 mm 
135 g recycled paper
 Printmaking & Posters (2024)

Cornershop

Logo for Cornershop. The custom typeface in the logo is titled Ladle Grotesk.

Cornershop is a food studio in Stockholm founded by Una Hallgrímsdóttir. It is a space for food-related explorations where sustainable cooking meets design and social engagement.

In the kitchen, the collective takes on catering projects, develops products, and hosts pop-ups, private dinner events, and cooking classes. From Friday to Sunday, Una serves an ever-changing menu using local and seasonal ingredients.
 Visual identity & type design (2024)

Observing the Maelstrom

Observing the Maelstrom is a publication that presents critical perspectives on technology, society, and design. It explores topics such as manipulative web design, biased algorithms, and commercial surveillance, by looking at the history of technology and the social impact of new media. The concept of technology is stretched and questioned. The texts consider shoes, smartphones, faucets, lightbulbs, arrows, typewriters, books, wheels, and quantum computers as technologies that expand our abilities and shape our behavior.


Published in May 2022
Size: 148 x 210 mm
 Book design, creative writing & type design (2022)

Modern

Modern is a proportionally spaced typewriter typeface that traces its origins back to the IBM Executive typewriter. This digitisation of Modern was done in collaboration with and under the direction of Jonas Williamsson.

Situated on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, MDT (Moderna Dansteatern) is a theater dedicated to contemporary choreography and performance. Their visual identity incorporates Modern as a key element.

All graphic design for MDT by Jonas Williamsson. Type design (2023)

Infrastructure Humanities Group

Visual identity and website for “Infrastructure Humanities Group”, a research group at the University of Glasgow.

The logo features custom typography by me, a rectangular take on the Futura letterforms, which are a nod to Paul Renners initial sketches for Futura.

The concept of the identity revolves around transition/transformation and inversion/glitch which are two key conceptual themes in critical infrastructure studies.


Visual identity (2024)

Felanmäld

Screen printed poster
Edition of 15
70x100 cm

Photographed at Södra Station, StockholmPrintmaking (2021)