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Jessica Walsh...

A big inspiration to me and a kind of nerdy graphic design crush (if thats a thing) is Jessica Walsh, a designer, illustrator and art director based in the Big Apple as part of the partnership Sagmeister and Walsh. I've looked at her work for around a year now and have become a big fan, especially her hand rendered typography, taking it further than just on paper and applying it onto people and taking her designs to the next level.

Sagmeister & Walsh's work is crazy, the concepts are things I would never think of doing, but its inspiring to see what people at the top of their game can come up with and actually get away with doing, some designers think that the creative freedom that you get with projects in University and my case College stops as soon as a live client is involved, Sagmeister & Walsh prove this isnt the fact and output crazy concepts that meet the brief. I remember watching a video on a live video they made to go onto a screen in Times Square, it was the making of a piece that I had seen before looking through Behance and on thier website and just automatically thought that it was computer generated, I was wrong. This piece spelled out the work MAX, in purple spikes, or thats what I thought. These were actually pencils that had been placed into large cutout letters and then sprayed.

I found the below video when going through a classmates blog to see if I had missed any posts for my PPD unit (inspiration right?!) and found it really interesting, it gives an insight into Walsh and her work as well as a little bit of a back story. In the video she mentions that she got a flat with an ex partner that they could barely afford just to follow a dream and approached Sagmeister for his opinion on her portfolio, he then asked when she could start working. Just goes to show following a dream sometimes works out VERY well.

I will continue to look at Walsh's work and her Instagram is a constant source of inspiration in both hand rendered type and colour, and as I've mentioned in a previous blog post she's actually saw some of my work on there and liked it (crazy). Maybe someday I'll do a Walsh-esque move to another city and land a big job, who knows! Only time will tell...

Possibly the best like I could get...

I know people on Instagram probably don't get bothered about who likes their photo and it's more about the number they get, but this is a big deal for me which sounds really nerdy.

Jessica Walsh is a designer I really look up to, both for her graphic design work and because she got to to the top of the game by not being shy. Sagmeister and Walsh is always an agency that I look at for inspiration and Jessica in particular with her typography speciality is someone I look up to.

To see she has actually saw my work is both inspiring and humbling and I hope I can do a lot more in the future. Definitely a nerdy highlight of the week...