Emma Hursey is an award-winning creative director and graphic designer. Spliting her time between surf and sun in Australia’s Rainbow Beach, meandering the streets of London, & late night cycles between friendships in Berlin.


Emma Hursey is a creative director and graphic designer based in Rainbow Beach, Australia.

        Emma works in the fields of culture, fashion and art – translating her surprising approach to form and colour across branding, typography, packaging, product, website, space and illustration.

        With a decade in the field of design, in 2022 she founded the design studio Doing Me Doing You︎︎︎. Working on visual identities internationally between Australia’s Rainbow Beach, Berlin and her native London.

        In 2017, Emma exhibited The Cost of the Patriarchy at the V&A Museum’s Friday Late. The work looked at the ebbs and flows of women’s rights throughout history. In 2018, she showed a research project Contrary to What is Agreeable at The Wømb Symposium – a zine and poster exhibition exploring diversity in the UK’s creative sector. In 2019, she was a founding member of the design collective The Boys Club Berlin︎︎︎ hosting events for the likes of AIGA Eye on Design, Ladies, Wine and Design and notamuse. In 2021, Emma collaborated with Carly Ladas on the creation of Our Store – a retail space within Little Parliament in Rainbow Beach that showcases Australian designed wares.


SELECT CLIENTS
Art
Studio Olafur Eliasson, V&A Museum, BFI, Perennial Institute, UP Projects

Hospitality
Ham Yard Hotel, Little Parliament, Soho House

Creatives
Marilyne Blais, ,Demi Anter, Tegan Emerson, Voluptuary, Flossy Productions

Fashion & Retail
Ninety Percent, Zalando, MoMA Design Store, Our Store, The Boardroom

Products
UNWRP, Kindred People, Little Sun, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Klean Kanteen

AWARDS
Indigo Award
Gold Winner in Packaging Design
Gold Winner in Branding
2023

PRESS
Femme Type︎︎︎
It’s Nice That︎︎︎
Fonts in Use︎︎︎
People of Print︎︎︎
People of Print︎︎︎
People of Print︎︎︎
People of Print︎︎︎
AIGA Eye on Design︎︎︎
AIGA Eye on Design︎︎︎
The Design Kids︎︎︎
Femme Type︎︎︎
Femme Type︎︎︎
designbywomxn︎︎︎
designbywomxn︎︎︎