Jessica Walsh (1986) is an American graphic designer, art director and illustrator, and a partner at creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh. She began coding and designing websites at age 11 and went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from RISD in 2008, Walsh moved to New York City. to intern at the notable design firm Pentagram. She turned down a job at Apple where she was offered nearly $100,000 annually to accept the internship under Paula Scher at Pentagram, where she would stay for nearly a year. She then worked as an associate art director at Print magazine and had design work and illustrations featured in various books, magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Times Magazine. In reflections about her time at Print magazine, she identifies it as one of the best things to happen in her career as it was how she found and developed her personal style.
In 2010, Walsh met Stefan Sagmeister. He looked through her portfolio and offered her a job at his design studio, Sagmeister Inc. In June 2012, after two years at the firm, Walsh was made partner, at age 25.
Blending handcraft, photography and painting with digital design, Walsh works primarily on branding, typography, website design and art installations. Her signature style has been described as "bold, emotional and provocative" with the occasional surrealistic flourish, and her art has been said to look "hand-made and at times quite daring." Walsh has worked on projects for clients including Levi's, Aizone, Adobe and Colab Eyewear, and rebranding efforts for The Jewish Museum of New York and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut.
In 2013, Walsh and fellow designer and friend Tim Goodman decided to date for 40 days to see if they could overcome their relationship issues and fall in love. They documented the social experiment on a blog, 40 Days of Dating, launched in July 2013. In support of the blog, which earned more than 5 million unique visitors in less than a year, they appeared in segments on talk shows Today and The View. In September 2013, Warner Brothers purchased the film rights, with a screenplay to be written by Lorene Scafaria.
In 2016, Walsh and Goodman began a second project together, "A 12-step experiment designed to open [their] hearts, eyes, and minds". Throughout 12 steps, the two designers contributed to society with their kindness and recorded the results, teaching themselves and their readers lessons of how a little contribution can go a long way. From going around the city of New York, asking strangers if they need help, to placing themselves into the shoes of those who receive the most negative feedback, such as telemarketers and homeless, Walsh and Goodman's experiment has received astounding feedback.
In March 2016, Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman were in the middle of their “12 Kinds of Kindness” project, a 12-step program created in the hopes of becoming kinder, more empathetic people. Step seven of this project was entitled “Kill them with Kindness”. During this stage, Jessica came to realize that often women in the design industry see each other as competition instead of allies, and so she came up with the idea of “Ladies, Wine and a bit of Design.”
Jessica started Ladies, Wine & Design (LWD) in Brooklyn and since April 2016, chapters have been started in over 150 cities around the world, led by local creative women who have the same passion as Jessica to see a change in the industry. In the past year, the global Ladies, Wine & Design initiative has continued to grow. Official LWD merchandise is planned to be on sale in the future.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Jessica Walsh and/or Sagmeister & Walsh. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from RISD in 2008, Walsh moved to New York City. to intern at the notable design firm Pentagram. She turned down a job at Apple where she was offered nearly $100,000 annually to accept the internship under Paula Scher at Pentagram, where she would stay for nearly a year. She then worked as an associate art director at Print magazine and had design work and illustrations featured in various books, magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Times Magazine. In reflections about her time at Print magazine, she identifies it as one of the best things to happen in her career as it was how she found and developed her personal style.
In 2010, Walsh met Stefan Sagmeister. He looked through her portfolio and offered her a job at his design studio, Sagmeister Inc. In June 2012, after two years at the firm, Walsh was made partner, at age 25.
Blending handcraft, photography and painting with digital design, Walsh works primarily on branding, typography, website design and art installations. Her signature style has been described as "bold, emotional and provocative" with the occasional surrealistic flourish, and her art has been said to look "hand-made and at times quite daring." Walsh has worked on projects for clients including Levi's, Aizone, Adobe and Colab Eyewear, and rebranding efforts for The Jewish Museum of New York and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut.
In 2013, Walsh and fellow designer and friend Tim Goodman decided to date for 40 days to see if they could overcome their relationship issues and fall in love. They documented the social experiment on a blog, 40 Days of Dating, launched in July 2013. In support of the blog, which earned more than 5 million unique visitors in less than a year, they appeared in segments on talk shows Today and The View. In September 2013, Warner Brothers purchased the film rights, with a screenplay to be written by Lorene Scafaria.
In 2016, Walsh and Goodman began a second project together, "A 12-step experiment designed to open [their] hearts, eyes, and minds". Throughout 12 steps, the two designers contributed to society with their kindness and recorded the results, teaching themselves and their readers lessons of how a little contribution can go a long way. From going around the city of New York, asking strangers if they need help, to placing themselves into the shoes of those who receive the most negative feedback, such as telemarketers and homeless, Walsh and Goodman's experiment has received astounding feedback.
In March 2016, Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman were in the middle of their “12 Kinds of Kindness” project, a 12-step program created in the hopes of becoming kinder, more empathetic people. Step seven of this project was entitled “Kill them with Kindness”. During this stage, Jessica came to realize that often women in the design industry see each other as competition instead of allies, and so she came up with the idea of “Ladies, Wine and a bit of Design.”
Jessica started Ladies, Wine & Design (LWD) in Brooklyn and since April 2016, chapters have been started in over 150 cities around the world, led by local creative women who have the same passion as Jessica to see a change in the industry. In the past year, the global Ladies, Wine & Design initiative has continued to grow. Official LWD merchandise is planned to be on sale in the future.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Jessica Walsh and/or Sagmeister & Walsh. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
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| Breakup Social Campaign |
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| Build Kindness Not Walls campaign outside Trump Towers as part of the 12 Kinds of Kindness experiment |
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| No Filter Mailbox |
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| No Filter Can |
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| New York Times cover |
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| Aishti By The Sea |
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| Aishti By The Sea |
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| Aishti By The Sea |
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| Aizone 14-16 |
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| Aizone AW14 |
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| Aizone campaign |
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| Aizone Campaigns 2011-14 |
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| Aizone FW13 |
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| Aizone |
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| Apostrophe Poster |
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| By The Sea Campaign for The Aishti Foundation |
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| By The Sea Campaign for The Aishti Foundation |
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| By The Sea Campaign for The Aishti Foundation |
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| Campaigns for "Aizone" department store in Lebanon |
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| Feed your brain |
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| Milly fall 2018 ad campaign |
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| Milly Microwave |
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| Milly FW 18 Color Lover |
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| No Filter Eyemask |
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| Quotes on shit |
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| Shared Voices Poster series for the RISD |
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| Yes She Can |
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| Brand campaign for Frooti |
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| Appy Fizz |
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| Appy Fizz |
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| Brand campaign for Frooti |
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| Brand campaign for Frooti |
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| Frooti, Mango Submarine |
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| SVA portrait |
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| The New York Times Magazine cover |
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