Designing Women Part 2

Continuing from last month, we take another surf through great personalities from the design, painting, and illustration worlds — closing out this year’s Designing Women with : * Kathleen Meaney, * Debbie Millman : Sterling Brands, * Nicolle Rager Fuller, * Susan Sellers : brand strategy, * Tina and Esther: Little Fury, * Jessica Skipworth : Branding, * Deborah Adler, and last but not least, * Sara De Bondt!

16th Annual Designing Women Continuing from last month, we take another surf through great personalities from the design, painting, and illustration worlds — closing out this year’s Designing Women with : * Kathleen Meaney, * Debbie Millman : Sterling Brands, * Nicolle Rager Fuller, * Susan Sellers : brand strategy, * Tina and Esther: Little Fury, * Jessica Skipworth : Branding, * Deborah Adler, and last but not least, * Sara De Bondt!

Alphabeasties and other Amazing Types

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An amazing body of fantastic work can be found at designing woman Sharon Werner’s web site : Werner Design Works.
      Enjoy her playful, fun logo collection … amongst others
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Werner Design Works
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Kathleen Meaney Teaching Designer

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The most exciting part of meeting designing woman Kathleen Meaney is discovering her teaching methods. (Also interesting is the use of the ampersand as the site icon!)
      This assignment requires the student to act as punchcutter and printer — a process through which the history and present-day practices of graphic design unfold. It lays down a foundation for digital typography and color theory, and serves as a primer for letterpress printing.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Terms & Conditions
designing women who use Photoshop Another great signage sample

Debbie Millman : Sterling Brands

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Debbie has been a major influence in building the creative side of Sterling Brands since 1995. Debbie’s loves are culture, technology and the role that design plays in our everyday lives.
      Debbie is President of the AIGA, the largest professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine, a design writer at FastCompany.com and BrandNew.com, and Chair of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Sterling Brands
designing women who use Photoshop A look at Debbie’s unique Extinction Timeline

Sara De Bondt

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Sara De Bondt is a London-based Belgian graphic designer who has been running her studio since 2003. There you’ll find some wonderful and ground-breaking design …
      At her site, you can also download a copy of her Futuro ET font — The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art typeface (ttf) !!!
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Sara De Bondt studio
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Susan Sellers : brand strategy

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Susan Sellers is a founding partner and Creative Director at 2×4 and Senior Critic at Yale University School of Art. At 2×4, she leads diverse projects from large-scale identity and branding projects to exhibition and set design for major cultural institutions nationwide.
      While it’s not necessarily about print or graphic design — it indeed is about visual communications design. Spend some time in this site and you’ll be amazed.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Two by Four dot org (2×4.org)
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Tina and Esther: Little Fury

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Anyone who names their site “little fury” has something going on that nobody else knows about. Maybe that’s what’s going on with Tina Chang and Esther Mun!
      Be sure to dig into the packaging items … there are some very cool solutions here.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Tina and Esther: Little Fury
designing women who use Photoshop A most unique “About” page

Deborah Adler left Milton

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Adler was a senior designer for Milton Glaser for five years. She left motivated by a desire to make people’s lives easier and safer.
      Now, she plies products, packaging, labeling, identity and information systems through her multidisciplinary design studio, Deborah Adler LLC.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Deborah Adler LLC
designing women who use Photoshop Images from Deborah’s site without the Java!

Jessica Skipworth : Branding

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Jessica, from Melbourne, Australia, has some lucious stuff in her portfolio like this complete pictorial review of her “DELIVER” branding campaign!
      Take a lesson, young designers
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Jessica Skipworth
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Nicolle’s Visions of our world

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Nicolle Rager Fuller specializes in bold artwork that pulls you in to visually communicate complex ideas and topics — from DNA to the stars, infographics to editorials.
      Nicolle creates custom illustrations and design for both print and web. Well versed in reading scientific literature, Nicolle researches relevant materials to advise what graphics have (or not) been done in your subject area, how they can be improved upon, and how best to incorporate the latest research.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : Sayo-Art
designing women who use Photoshop A collection of Nicolle’s stuff on behance.net

This is your life

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arm is a multi-disciplinary studio made up of of three partners and a handful of creative collaborators — founded in 2006 by Aubrey Stalnaker, Rachael Beresh and Megan Deal.
      Nothing else to say.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : ARM
designing women who use Photoshop The full poster shot


More to follow …
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Pamela Wells : Publishing Art & Magic
GO Vanesa Merulla : whatever it takes
GO
Stylin’ with Nicole Alesi
GO Photoshop (Designing Women) Madness
GO 17th Annual Designing Women
GO stay tuned for the next edition of Designing Women

And, thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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