About


Johanne Lian Olsen is a designer working within type design, identities and editorial design. Her clients include IKEA, NIKE, Tate, Adobe, Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery and Thames & Hudson Publishers.

EXPERIENCE /

2022 – 
Design Director, Nonspace

2019 – 2022
Freelance Graphic Designer, Anti

2017 – 
Graphic Designer, Freelance

2017 – 2018
Graphic Designer, SocioDesign, London

2013 – 2017
Graphic Designer, Studio Claus Due, Copenhagen
 

EDUCATION /

2014
Master’s degree, Visual Communications
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

2012
Bachelor’s degree, Visual Communications
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
 

AWARDS & HONOURS /

Jury Member 2018
Visuelt Design Awards, Grafill Norway

TDC 2015, Identity (Designbolaget Project)
TDC, Type Directors Club, New York

The Year’s Most Beautiful Books 2015 (Designbolaget Project)
Grafill, Oslo

Bronze, Corporate Identity (Designbolaget Project)
Creative Circle Awards

Silver, Packaging (Designbolaget Project)
Creative Circle Awards

Finalist, Photo Series
SHOTS Young Photographers
 

GRANTS /

Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund

Project Grant, ´Backside of The Strip, L.V.´
Grafill, Oslo

Project Grant, ´Break.´
Grafill, Oslo

Business Start-Up Grant
Grafill, Oslo
 

EXHIBITIONS & PRESS /

Feature, FEMME TYPE – an all-female publication
femme-type.com

Feature, GEOMETRY NOW!
Sendpoints Publishing

Participant
Fedrigoni 365

Feature, COLOURS
Slanted 38

Article Read here
It’s Nice That

FREE RANGE, Exhibition
Truman Brewery, London

ART FROM THE ARCTIC, Exhibition
Maverick Showroom, London


TALKS /

Plymouth College of Arts