Category: Badass Lady Creatives

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) was an influential painter in the Indian modern art movement. Amrita is often labelled the “Frida Kahlo of India&...

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...

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...

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...

Something about Miss Lotion’s illustration style feels nostalgic. To this child of the ’90s, her work conjures mental images of Nickelode...

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...

This Monday, illustrator and surface designer Leah Reena Goren announced her new shop, and with it, her Fall/Autumn 2014 scarf collection. The collect...

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...

Jessica Svendsen, a designer at Pentagram, is talented across print and environmental media. Where this badass lady creative really shines is in her p...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

“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.” “Fighter&#822...

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...

Editorial illustration has quite the reputation for (thrillingly) tight deadlines. Despite the fast-paced nature of this specialty, illustrator Julia ...

This month’s badass lady creative [in history] is for the editorial design nerds: Cipe Pineles, a force in twentieth-century art direction. Pine...

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...

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...