17th Annual Designing Women

WELCOME to another great year of personalities from the design, painting, and illustration worlds — we’ll be discovering new talents, and revisiting some of our past Designing Women! Ladies and gentlemen may we present : * Maya Barkai, * Sarah Pannell, * Andrea Rahal, * Louise Fili, * Paula Scher, * Jessica Hische, * Lizania Cruz, * Yuko Shimizu, * Gina Triplett, * Kelli Anerson!

16th Annual Designing WomenWELCOME to another great year of personalities from the design, painting, and illustration worlds — we’ll be discovering new talents, and revisiting some of our past Designing Women! Ladies and gentlemen may we present : * Maya Barkai, * Sarah Pannell, * Andrea Rahal, * Louise Fili, * Paula Scher, * Jessica Hische, * Lizania Cruz, * Yuko Shimizu, * Gina Triplett, * Kelli Anerson!
… and we’ll be following with even more!

Maya Barkai : big stuff

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Maya Barkai is a Photographer and Artist based in New York, NY, with a propensity toward ‘walking men’
      Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Barkai is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts’ Photography Department (BFA 2005), and has been based in New York City for the past nine years. She spent her military service in the Israeli Defense Forces as a military photographer for the IDF Official Magazine, ‘BaMachaneh’. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, and she is the recipient of the National Press Photographers
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers Press coverage
Designing Women Full story : Maya’s www.mayabarkai.com

Seeing history before it happens

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Documentary and Editorial Photography seldom gets a lot of glamour in today’s over-saturated photography world. Yet it’s the photo journalists who breathe life into the history of society! While not particularly flashy or zoomy, the sensitivity and scope of the images seen in her Flickr stream are most fulfilling. Bravo, Sarah!
      We are really enjoying the work of Sarah Pannell, 23 year old photo journalist in San Jose, California, USA.
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers See, one of Sarah’s large posters
Designing Women Full story : Sarah Pannell’s photostream

More than an inkling about design

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In May the NSCAD graduate in photography and graphic design opened her dream business, Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio …
      Andrea Rahal, owner, curator and designer is realizing some great success generating custom and classic letterpress printed designs.
Designing Women Full story : Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers Google: Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique


2,000 covers

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Louise Fili worked in the book publishing business for 11 years and now runs her own design studio where she specializes in some of the most awesome restaurant identity, food packaging and book jacket design you’ll ever see!
      She was a designer for Herb Lubalin for 3 years before becoming an art director for Pantheon Books. While she was there she designed over 2000 book covers and jackets. She is married to designer and author Steven Heller!
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers Google search ofLouise Fili works
Designing Women Full story : Louise Fili at www.louisefili.com

A chat with Paula Scher

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Scher began her career creating album covers for both Atlantic and CBS records. However, it was not long before she formed her own design company, and after only a few years there she joined Pentagram.
      Scher has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a broad range of clients that includes, among others, Bloomberg, Coca-Cola, Bausch. This film is great, and the link goes to a collection of her works.
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers Here, Lots of samples of Paula’s works
Designing Women Enjoy this video chat with Paula Scher, via hillmancurtis.com

Jessica Hische : Inspiration

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We introduced you to Jessica some time ago in the pages of DTG. While revisiting her, we discovered a lively piece she’s written called “Inspiration vs. Imitation” … I think all creatives should read it …
     

Quoting  begins Every now and then I get a really lovely email from an aspiring letterer that is about to publish a passion project of his or her own. They tell me my work was an inspiration and that they can’t wait to share their creation with the world. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside for a moment — until I click on their link and realize that much of what they intend to publish is nearly a direct tracing of my work. Quoting  ends

Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers See her Daily Dropcap Alphabet #1
Designing Women Full story : www.jessicahische.is


I Googled

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I ran across one of these in another search, and liked it enough to go digging to discover the talents of Lizania!
      Lizania Cruz is a graphic designer from Dominican Republic to Altos de Chaven the School of Design, to Philadelphia University. Her work is fresh, alive and exciting.
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers See her inspired print portfolio
Designing Women Full story : Lizania Cruz site lizania.com

YUKO : fresh, funny, fantastic

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There’s really more art here than you may want to take on — but if you’re like me, once you start digging in, it’ll be dark before you know it.
      Yuko Shimizu is a freelance illustrator based in New York City and an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen her as one of “100 Japanese People The World Respects” in 2009.
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers Here, See lots and lots more of Yuko’s work
Designing Women Full story : yukoart.com

Gina is fun, yet complicated

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Gina works with Matt, and we had a bit of a time separating the two — once you see Gina’s work, you won’t get them confused.
      Gina Triplett is an illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. Besides working on projects for clients that include Target, Converse, Whole Foods and Chronicle Books, she enjoys spending time exploring the city, sitting at cafes, playing with her dog and collaborating on paintings with her husband, Matt Curtius.
Designing Women, creative, visual artists and designers A sample of one of Gina’s large illustrations
Designing Women Full story : www.ginaandmatt.com

Draw, photograph, cut, print, code, and create

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Kelli Anerson is a bit of a renaissance woman. I believe this has to be one of the unique web sites I’ve seen. The front page acts like a Google map, but shows her work! WOW … Kelli writes :
      I’m an artist/designer and tinkerer who is always experimenting with new means of making images and experiences. From interactive paper to layered, experimental websites, everything begins and ends here in my studio which houses a 1919 letterpress and an assortment of other benevolent contraptions. I also teach art history at Pratt every summer.
Designing Women Kelli’s impressive web site and samples : kellianderson.com


More to follow … stay tuned for the next edition of Designing Women

And, thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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