Women Designers?
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- Fariska0
http://www.larissameek.com/
Yes, she is a model
and yes, she's also a really good designer.
- ********0
lol
- killerqueen0
Kelpie your whole shop is full of cunts and i mean that literally dear.
- seed0
- Jaline0
I have A LOT here:
http://del.icio.us/jaline/female…
- jfletcher0
I've known more guy designers, but I have seen plenty of awesome female ones.... I've also plenty of bad designers of both sexes.
- jfletcher0
Jenny Lam is pretty damn good:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpos…
- killerqueen0
is she?
- ********0
No....shes not
- Have you worked with her, or do you just not llike Vista?jfletcher
- linearch0
http://www.omnivorous.org/
femmes doing much better work than you all- Damn, I need a faster connection. I'm on a crappy cell phone wireless card.jfletcher
- WeLoveNoise0
antigirl
that was who i was thinking off.
fuck me that has been bugging me since yesterday
- typotron0
This is an interesting post... Because almost everyone assumes that a designer has to be a "graphic designer," maybe it's because of our growing insular nature. Anyway, there is a really nice book on this topic, Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000 (Sorry Canucks). It might expand your view of who "designers" are.
btw: A lot of professional woman designers opt for fashion or interior design.
- also, why has no one mentioned april greiman, the techster pioneer (though i'm not a fan of her work).typotron
- utopian0
My personal observation of many women designers is, that they interject a feminine component of style into their work too often, even when it is not necessary. Unless the actual design is for a female product and or service is strongly believe that the purpose of good design should be gender neutral and appeal to all audiences. With said, there are plenty of talented female designers that I have been blessed to work with...
- utopian0
The best female designer hands down is the Iraqi born architect and designer Zaha Hadid. Her work transcends gender, race and culture.
- rubifuse0
Why do you (spanish_design) feel the need to ask if there are any talented women designers because the one woman in your agency is not up to your "standards"? Do you ever venture beyond the walls of your agency? This is a pretty narrow minded observation. Check your head you nob.
- Jaline0
utopian, you could be right, but there's nothing to compare that to, really. I mean, there must be a larger number of male designers compared to female. And what exactly IS a "feminine component of style"? If it's about flourishes, flowers, and pink, you could say the same thing for men who have grunge works, only use females as their subjects for photographs, or use colours that are deemed to be "masculine".
Unless you are talking about components that are more subversive.
You could be right, I don't know. But I find that saying something is a "feminine component of style" is not clear/defined enough.
- sodesign0
*sigh* my first reaction to the original post was disbelief. And now i've gotten over the urge to swear, i think i can respond in a sensible fashion.
I pose a question to both the original poster and utopian, why does gender play a part in design at all? Building upon what Jaline just said, design is relevant to time and place, i.e. it's context. This includes the person who makes it and so if ultimately design is a form of self expression, the work will reflect the person. Whether gender comes into this i'm not sure? I think that people of both genders experience the same things and therefore their works can be formed in the same way, for example Jaline mentions flourishes and floral patterns to do with females, but i know many male designers who use those very elements. One only had to look at an issue of computer arts in the last year to see this to be true.
Furthermore i know many talented and gifted female designers and it pains me to use the adjective "female" in this case because i respect them as designers, and they are designers regardless of gender. Maybe this maybe a romantic view, or maybe the truth is that in the common pool of past experience, the majoirty are shared by males and females, granted not all (birth, menstruation etc) but emotionally. And as we express these experience through design (whether this is a conscious or subconscious choice is better can be debated, but i think it's better left for another day) then surely design at it's best is not only a-sexual, but personal.
So ultimately, i fail to see the importance that gender plays on design!
- Jaline0
^ yeah, that.