women in design...women in design (or hey look at all this cool s#@t you missed because women are...
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WOMEN IN DESIGNWOMEN IN DESIGN(or HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL S#@T YOU MISSED BECAUSE WOMEN ARE RARELY TAKEN SERIOUSLY LETS NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN)
Cristina “Tuna” Silva @silvacristina_ 🍑
Note
Woman = anyone who identifies as one
Where my ladies at?
thoughtbot Pentagram (Partners)
Sagmeister & Walsh
Huge (Leadership Positions)
UpstatementRally 👎
THE PAST IS FEMALETHE PAST IS FEMALE
Muriel Cooper
Sylvia Harris
Corita Kent
Jacqueline Casey
Carin Goldberg
Susan Kare
Carol Twombly
Louise Filli
Zuzana Licko
Sarah Charlesworth
Ray Eames
Cipe Pinele
Gail Anderson
Elaine Lustig Cohen
Ruth Ansel
Eiko Ishioka
Jacqueline Casey
Years Designing: 1955-1989
From: Quincy, MA
Place of Work:
MIT
Best Known For: Bringing the International Typographic Style to the US/Academia
Susan Kare
Years Designing: 1982 - Today
From: Ithaca, NY
Place of Work:
Apple
Best Known For: The UI for early Macintosh Computers
Zuzana Licko
Years Designing: 1984 - Today
From: Czechoslovakia
Place of Work:
Emigre
Best Known For: Co-founder of Emigre Magazine and Type Foundry
Filosofia Regular Filosofia Grand
Gail Anderson
Years Designing: 1984 - Today
From: New York City
Place of Work: Rolling Stone, Boston Globe, SpotCo
Best Known For:
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Who didn’t love a Flair Pen in the ’70s? The ridges on the body of the pen, that little white band around the tip? But they were only good when they were new, before the line got too thick. I doodled on the back of every notebook and sketchpad in my locker, and got particularly carried away this time around. I fi lled the entire page with my disco faves, friends’ names and groovy lettering.
I don’t have any of the tiny Jackson 5 and Partridge Family magazines I made in grammar school, but I’m glad I unearthed this little high school artifact. It’s still probably the best thing I’ve ever done.
I think I always wanted to do something commer-cial art-related. I had a cousin who worked at CBS in some design capacity and I thought he was cool. And, of course, Darren Stevens’ job on “Bewitched” sounded like a great way to make a living, too.
GAIL ANDERSONM Y B E S T W O R K
THE ERACirca 1978 when designer Gail Anderson was a sopho-more at Cardinal Spellman High School, Bronx, NY
THE PROJECTFlair Pen Fun, ink on notebook paper
I knew I liked designing with words from early on, so projects like my little sketchpad endeavor were great ways to explore lots of lettering styles. We played around with Letraset in my studio art class in high school and learned basic calligraphy (my art teacher was very enlightened). The Paul Davis “To be good is not enough when you dream of being great” SVA poster sealed the deal, though. — G A I L A N D E R S O N
Gail Anderson is the creative director of design at SpotCo (spotnyc.com), an ad agency and design studio that specializes in Broadway theater and entertainment design. Anderson teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA Design program and is the recipi-ent of the 2008 AIGA Medal. She wishes her high school art teacher was still alive to see her notebook page published in a magazine.
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THE PRESENT IS FEMALETHE PRESENT IS FEMALE
Lotta Nieman
Allison House
Lea Verou
Sara Soueidan
Amelie Lamont
Julie Ann Horvath
Jeany Ngo
Jessica Walsh
Bethany Heck
Sarah Drasner
Jenn Schiffer
Catt Small
Tracy Ma
Jen Kramer
Jessica Hische
Kate Moross
Allison House
From: New York City
Place of Work: Dropbox, Code Academy, Freelance
Best Known For: Being a designer turned Cinema4D artist
@house
From: Lebanon
Place of Work:
Freelancer, Smashing Magazine
Best Known For: SVG Master
@SaraSoueidan
Sara Soueidan
https://sarasoueidan.com/tools/circulus/
https://sarasoueidan.com/demos/css-blender/
@EephusLeague
Bethany Heck
From: Auburn, AL
Place of Work:
IBM, Vox Media
Best Known For: Breaking all the rules of typography
From: New York City
Place of Work:
Bloomberg Businessweek, Matter Studios
Best Known For: The Rise of Brutalist Web Design(?)
@tracy_ma
Tracy Ma
THE FUTURE IS FEMALETHE FUTURE IS FEMALE
Here we are!
Scout 👌
70% of design students are women
40% of designers in the industry are women
How are we doing? Where are we going?• More female speakers at conferences
• More and more women are speaking up about the bullshit they face
• Amplify each other
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world […] There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.
Women are expected to educate men.
- Audre Lorde
YOU.
• Find your support system.
• Challenge yourself. Get uncomfortable.
• Keep pursuing what you don’t know.
Resources
* Techies Project
* Women of Graphic Design (blog)
* POCIT
* Got a Girl Crush
* theli.st
* Graphic Design Women (blog)
* BadAss Lady Creatives
THANKSTHANKS