Now we continue our quest for creative spirits in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 18th Annual Designing Women edition kicks off with :
* Gender Disparities in the Design Field
* Linn Olofsdotter : an eye for detail
* strawberryLuna : Female Designers
* The magic of Katie Daisy
* WOW : Birdwatching
… and more to come!
Now we continue our quest for creative spirits in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 18th Annual Designing Women edition kicks off with :
* Gender Disparities in the Design Field
* Linn Olofsdotter : an eye for detail
* strawberryLuna : Female Designers
* The magic of Katie Daisy
* WOW : Birdwatching
… and more to come!
Gender Disparities in the Design Field
Walk into any design classroom, at any college in America, and you’ll see a comfortable mix of male and female students. Turn your attention to the front of the classroom, or down the hall to the faculty and staff offices, and that wonderful gender balance starts to skew. Travel outside the campus, and there’s really no balance at all.
Vitaly Friedman, Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine provides this thought provoking essay
Full story : Smashing Magazine See for more details!
strawberryLuna : Female Designers
We loved our visit to strawberryluna and we think you will too, not just for this article, but a whole lot more!
Strawberryluna is Allison & Craig, a pair of designers, illustrators, and screenprinters as well as music and film nerds based in Pittsburgh, PA. Allison says
… the correct way to spell our studio name is “strawberryluna”. All one word, all lower case. Full on. When it’s good, you don’t need to shout.
… the correct way to spell our studio name is “strawberryluna”. All one word, all lower case. Full on. When it’s good, you don’t need to shout. 
Full story : Allison & Craig strawberryLuna See for more details!
WOW : Birdwatching
BirdWatching is a new platform for women in graphic design, professional practice and career development. Their aim is to develop the field of graphic design as a platform for diversity and cultural democracy by offering a forum for discovery, growth and experimentation.
Their articles and imagery are wonderful. Full story : BirdWatching See for more details!
The magic of Katie Daisy
This is magical work. It’s not so much striking or ground-breaking graphic design as it is magical illustration that just, plain, feels good. You’ll want some of her hand lettering for sure!
What a great time! THANK YOU Katie! We love you, Katie! Full story : Katie Daisy See for more details!
Linn Olofsdotter : an eye for detail
Linn Olofsdotter, from Sweden, has explored many mediums before solidifying her career in the illustration field.
After getting her education in both advertising and graphic design in Europe and the US, she moved to Brazil to start up a motion graphics studio along with her husband and creative partner. More recently Linn worked as a senior art director at a Boston advertising agency. Full story : Linn Olofsdotter See for more details!
NEXT . . . Page THREE of this year’s DW special
DTG Designing Women Series Continues
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