Esmé Munson

two days - india ink paintings on two pages of a chinese calendar

i'll see you again - a gouache painting of a friend's birthday cake, with handcarved text on top

tiger lily - two color screenprint to think about surface design, full of my favorite things

shirt with my grandma in new york city, and my mom in grad school

holding - the last stanza of my favorite frank o' hara poem, handset with lead type, printed on a vandercook letterpress

i hope - monoprint CMYK screenprint, of my parents on their wedding day, and a thanksgiving around 2008.

kismet - book cover design for kismet: destiny, or fate

first day of spring - a poster design for a special date

fish pond - stop motion animation

stencil monoprints playing with reoccurring shapes

camellia - screenprints about snips of fond memories

cicadas - photo transfer of film photos with silkscreen, about the permeation of my favorite sound

selected for the 2025 Society of Illustrators Student Competition

shooting star - monoprints about the same thing, in different skies

strawberry street festival - a woodblock print with hand-set letterpress type, for a beloved spring festival in my hometown.

all there is - an illustration for a quote, using a real sundae a friend and I shared as reference

big bowl of rice - CMYK screenprint on paper and doilies, of me as a baby with my parents and grandfather