Women Designers?
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*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!