19th Annual Designing Women Two

March is “Women’s History Month” and each year for the past nineteen years, we’ve celebrated with a guided tour of some of the best designing women we could find in the world. Some of these were actually sent in by readers, others were discovered online by staff. . Ladies and gentlemen, we present the 19th Annual Designing Women edition surf two :
* Gergana Plummer: You Don’t Need A Computer
* Fanciful hand lettering we’ve seen before
* Eleanor Grosch long boards and a lot more
* Twenty-Five ways to love Jessica Walsh
* Lori dazzles you with happiness
* Andrea Kalfas
… and more to come!

19th Annual Designing WomenMarch is “Women’s History Month” and each year for the past nineteen years, we’ve celebrated with a guided tour of some of the best designing women we could find in the world. Some of these were actually sent in by readers, others were discovered online by staff. . Ladies and gentlemen, we present the 19th Annual Designing Women edition surf two :
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Gergana Plummer: You Don’t Need A Computer
* Fanciful hand lettering we’ve seen before
* Eleanor Grosch long boards and a lot more
* Twenty-Five ways to love Jessica Walsh
* Lori dazzles you with happiness
* Andrea Kalfas
… and more to come!

Andrea Kalfas

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Andrea Kalfas is a freelance illustrator currently soaking up the charm of Baltimore, MD.
      She earned her BFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recently, she published her newest zine, “Warlow’s Guide to Wizards, Sorceri & Familiars Arcane” a playful fictional guide to young magi in the selection of familiars, featuring original character and creature designs. Scout Books also recently released a set of blank notebooks featuring her cosmic cover art, available for purchase on their store here. (main page is a side scroller!)
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Andrea Kalfas
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Fanciful hand lettering we’ve seen before

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Yes, we visited with Katie once before, and we’re delighted to be back again
      Katie got our attention with a HUGE body of work including a lot of fanciful hand lettering. Problem is, she seems to have falled off the edge of the world. Her web site has fallen into the hands of an affiliate “Parked” page, and other references have gone dead all together. Her last blog entry was in 2012 — But it was a good one! Where in the world are you Katie???
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Katie Daisy
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Eleanor Grosch long boards and a lot more

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Eleanor caught our attention because she creates wonderful art for skateboards and long boards — which is what my son is into. So we decided to take a look.
      Amazingly enough that’s just a tiny sample of all the art and design she creates, for all kinds of clients all over the world. WOW… with a great big smile! (Don’t miss this interview!) …
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Just Eleanor!
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NEXT : Lori Weitzel, Gergana Plummer and Jessica Walsh

Twenty-Five ways to love Jessica Walsh

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Jessica is a designer, Art Director and Illustrator in New York, NY
      Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and books, and won design awards from the Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, SPD, Print, Graphis, among others. She has been named Computer Arts magazines “Top Rising Star in Design” and more
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Jessica Walsh Graphic Design
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Lori dazzles you with happiness

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Lori Weitzel is an artist, illustrator, designer and creative director in Winter Park, Florida. Her blogs are fun and lively — Orlando illustrator : lori weitzel : a daily personal art blog —
      What we like best about Lori is her unique talents of visual story telling. Her designs tell the story without speaking a word. Cool. (You’ll want to see her Tumblr site too!)
READ THIS REPORT Full story : lori weitzel, Visual Storyteller
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Gergana Plummer: You Don’t Need A Computer

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Gergana is all over the world — with considerable insight and talent in typography, branding, design and visual drama. While her profile says she works at ‘Paper-Stone-Scissors’ the rather odd http://www.paperstonescissors.com/au/# web site takes some real digging to get to the story. She’s also been celebrated for her typeface packaging and her fabulous branding package for COUSCOUS . . . and yet her gergana.co.uk web site is empty.
      We really loved her posters . . . “You Don’t Need A Computer… “
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Gergana Plummer, Somewhere in the World
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–>Stay tuned because we’ll be adding new entries all month long . . . and will continue into April! Remember, if you would like to suggest a Designing Woman for this series, there’s still time. Just check it out here:
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And, thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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