Badass Lady Creatives: Art Director/Designer Jenny Tondera
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Jenny Tondera, Art Director at Spring Studios NY, hasquite a bit under her belt: she’s designed atMCAD DesignWorks, 160over90, andBloomingdale&#...
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Badass Lady Creatives [in History]: Amrita Sher-Gil
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Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) was an influential painter in the Indian modern art movement. Amrita is often labelled the “Frida Kahlo of India&...
Badass Lady Creatives: Hattie Newman
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I don’t know what’s in the water over in London, but the city boasts some pretty serious set design talent. A recent favorite is Hattie Ne...
13 Italian Illustrators Whose Work Will Inspire You
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Italian illustrators are really showing up in the illustration scene right now. With bold color choices and meaningful messages, these illustrators fr...
Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sarah Wyman Whitman
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Vital to the history of graphic design is the Arts and Crafts Movement, a notion that art and life are intrinsically bound to each other. The initia...
Badass Lady Creatives: Smriti Keshari
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Among the most interesting creatives to watch are those who are not bound by title, but compelled to make earnest and important work in whichever f...
Badass Lady Creatives: Illustration by Miss Lotion
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Something about Miss Lotion’s illustration style feels nostalgic. To this child of the ’90s, her work conjures mental images of Nickelode...
Badass Lady Creatives: 6 Type Designers
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People love to ask “where are the female type designers?”, but the truth is, their work is all around us. Carol Twombly’s typefaces come pa...
Badass Lady Creatives: New Shop from Leah Reena Goren
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This Monday, illustrator and surface designer Leah Reena Goren announced her new shop, and with it, her Fall/Autumn 2014 scarf collection. The collect...
Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sofonisba Anguissola
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Though this column has featured creatives from the 20th-century onward, women have long been active participants in the arts. Among the first female a...
Badass Lady Creatives: Poster Design by Jessica Svendsen
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Jessica Svendsen, a designer at Pentagram, is talented across print and environmental media. Where this badass lady creative really shines is in her p...
Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Liz Danzico, Creative Director at NPR
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It’s hard to believe Liz Danzico has as many hours in the day as the rest of us. She’s the founding chairperson of the MFA in Interacti...
Badass Lady Creatives: Kiwi Designers and Illustrators
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New Zealand is known for its extreme natural beauty (see Peter Jackson’s Tolkein movies for reference), and its design scene is pretty great, to...
Badass Lady Creatives: Comics by Yumi Sakugawa
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As of late, comics are enjoying greater popularity—and respect from the art world. One of the best side effects of this trend is a wider variety of...
New Portfolio Site: Kitkat Pecson
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Illustrator/designer Kitkat Pecson just launched her new portfolio site a few days ago. If you’re looking to revamp your website—or build a ...
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Badass Lady Creatives [in History]: Lola Álvarez Bravo
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“I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.” “Fighter̶...
Badass Lady Creatives: 5 Textile Designers
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Textile design is a specialty that may seem simple, but requires quite a bit of thought: how large to scale this pattern? How will these colors transl...
Badass Lady Creatives: Julia Yellow
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Editorial illustration has quite the reputation for (thrillingly) tight deadlines. Despite the fast-paced nature of this specialty, illustrator Julia ...
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Badass Lady Creatives [in History]: Cipe Pineles
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This month’s badass lady creative [in history] is for the editorial design nerds: Cipe Pineles, a force in twentieth-century art direction. Pine...
Badass Lady Creatives: 6 Lady-Made GIFs
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Illustrated GIFs are a bit like peanut butter fluff sandwiches: an already great thing with some extra sweetness on top. This week’s Badass Lad...
Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Illustrator Tuesday Bassen
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Personal projects are sure to appear on many a designer’s New Years Resolutions list—mine included! To ring in 2014, I talked with kickass ill...
Badass Lady Creatives [in History]: Varvara Stepanova
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The Russian Constructivist movement was a huge catalyst for graphic design and applied arts; in the years following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a g...
Badass Lady Creatives: Illustrators to follow on Instagram
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Too many blurry shots of food in your Instagram feed? Need something to break up all the selfies? More and more illustrators post works-in-progress to...
Interview with Product Designer Jessica Harllee
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Badass Lady Creatives celebrates talented women working in the creative industries. This week, I chat with product designer Jessica Harllee about her ...