Designing Women: 25 Female Designers and Illustrators We Love

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Here at GOOD, we've had the privilege of working with lots of talented women. Our in-house design team is female-dominated; four out of six designers on staff are women who crank out terrific work on a daily basis. So we found ourselves puzzled when some folks in the design community said they were having a tough time finding female designers to include in projects and events.

Just how hard is it to find a few good women designers? We took to Twitter to find out, soliciting tips for talented illustrators and designers to be featured in an informal showcase. The response was staggering. With more than 150 portfolios submitted, paring it down was difficult.

Eventually we chose to feature 25 women, but this slideshow is just the tip of the iceberg. Use the comments section to promote your favorite woman designer or illustrator (or, if you are one, to promote yourself). Let's make this a go-to resource so that the excuse "Oh, I just don't know any female designers" can be put to rest.

Now, join us on a visual tour de femme!

Above: Cave Party, a collective of designers from Minneapolis, MN.

Dylan C. Lathrop
Senior Editorial Designer

Posted in: Design,; Culture

Tags: design,; art,; graphic design,; illustration,; women designers,; women illustrators

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