Now we continue our quest for creative spirits in celebration of Women’s History Month. Ladies and gentlemen, the 18th Annual Designing Women edition continues with :
* Poster champ : Traci Edwards
* Jenny Schmid : Battle of Everyouth
* Yani Arabena: Inspired Calligraphy & Lettering
* Timeless Graphic Design of Cipe Pineles 1910 – 1991
* Dimitra Tzanos: Fresh of the Fresh
* Sarah Hartwig: multidisciplin design
* Yiying Lu: Amazement
* Clotilde Olyff cool fonts, typography presence
* Iran : Visions from Rashin Kheirieh
* Fresh talent from El Salvador
… 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 continues with :
* Poster champ : Traci Edwards
* Jenny Schmid : Battle of Everyouth
* Yani Arabena: Inspired Calligraphy & Lettering
* Timeless Graphic Design of Cipe Pineles 1910 – 1991
* Dimitra Tzanos: Fresh of the Fresh
* Sarah Hartwig: multidisciplin design
* Yiying Lu: Amazement
* Clotilde Olyff cool fonts, typography presence
* Iran : Visions from Rashin Kheirieh
* Fresh talent from El Salvador
… and more to come!
Poster champ : Traci Edwards
Go to Traci’s Gigaposter site and you’ll see a really broad range of design sensabilities from illustration to assemblage to typography and photography!
Full story : Traci Edwards Design See for screen capture or video
Jenny Schmid : Battle of Everyouth
Jenny Schmid and Ali Momeni’s project for Northern Spark at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, in 2011 — an ambitious project with a real positive outcome! Full story : Jenny Schmid See for screen capture or video
Yani Arabena: Inspired Calligraphy & Lettering
Discover some inspired calligraphy and quill lettering design from the hands of Yani Arabena. Yani is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and writes :
I’ve always admired calligraphy. It was matter of time to meet Silvia Cordero Vega for the first time at one of her classes. That experience transformed my admiration for letters into a kind of passion that constantly grows every day.
I’ve always admired calligraphy. It was matter of time to meet Silvia Cordero Vega for the first time at one of her classes. That experience transformed my admiration for letters into a kind of passion that constantly grows every day. 
Full story : Yani Arabena See for screen capture or video
Timeless Graphic Design of Cipe Pineles 1910 – 1991
The graphic design career of Cipe Pineles (pronounced SEE-pee pi-NELL-iss) reads lika a fairy-tale come true. Her style and vision lives yet today!
Cipe Pineles Burtin was the first woman to be asked to join the “all-male” New York Art Directors Club and later their Hall of Fame. She worked in editorial design for publisher Condé Nast, first at Vogue under Russian émigré art director M.F. Agha and later at Glamour, House and Garden, and Seventeen. Full story : AIGA tribute to Cipe, with Distinguished AIGA Medal See for screen capture or video
Dimitra Tzanos: Fresh of the Fresh
Born and raised in Johannesburg, Dimitra Tzanos is of Greek origin and currently live in Athens — but her art and design is world class. With Graphic Design study in Athens and a Masters in London, she’s concentrating on illustration . . . .
We think she’s also concentrating on FRESH because you’ll get a big breath of fresh air when you visit her digs … Full story : Dimitra Tzanos See for screen capture or video
NEXT : WOMEN in multidisciplin design
Sarah Hartwig: multidisciplin design
Sarah Hartwig is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist based in Berlin. She’s a Renaissance woman – and on her way up
Her incredible range of work goes from illustration and character design, graphic design, books, posters, package design, hand lettering and calligraphy, animation, photography to 3D design. Full story : Sarah Hartwig See for screen capture or video
Yiying Lu: Amazement
“Yiying” is 2 characters in Chinese. “Yi” means Happy; “Ying” means Creative. This artist, designer, illustrator, inventor and entrepreneur truly lives up to her name.
Aside from the awesome design work you’ll find at her web site, she’s also invented a whole new line of wall graphics you can buy! Yiying Lu premium wall graphics are self-adhesive and will stick to almost any surface (walls, windows, even ceilings), and can be removed and re-hung 100 times without leaving a mark or damaging your walls. Full story : Yiying Lu See for screen capture or video
Clotilde Olyff cool fonts, typography presence
Clotilde Olyff is a graphic designer from Belgium who designs unusual fonts. More importantly, she is involved on many different levels of type, lettering and typography right down to her participation in Lettered: Typefaces and Alphabets
See her work at many font’s vendors . . . be sure to take the slide show at this link: Full story : Clotilde Olyff See for screen capture or video
Iran : Visions from Rashin Kheirieh
Rashin has an incredible background of art and illustration. Primarily in cartoons and characters, she’s published far and wide.
Born in 1979 in Khorramshahr, Iran, she’s come a long way — a member of the society of illustration of Iran! She has written, illustrated and published children’s books Full story : Rashin Kheirieh See for screen capture or video
Fresh talent from El Salvador
Fabiola is primarily into photography with some stunning concepts — like the blue shape piece shown above. Visit her and take a look at here logos and other designs! Fresh talent!
El Salvador — freelance Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects. http://quiddityboom.deviantart.com/ Full story : Fabiola Salmeron See for screen capture or video
And, that wraps up another year for Designing Women . . . if you discover women designers you really like, pass them along. We don’t have to have a special topic to celebrate good design.
More about DTG’s Designing Women series DTG Designing Women Series Continues . . .
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