Influential Female Designers
On March 8th it was International Women’s Day. I actually had no idea such a day even existed. In celebration of such a day I decided to make a belated post honoring International Women’s Day. I have gathered a collection of females who design and/or blog to share with you. This is a collection of female designers I follow on twitter, subscribe to their blogs, and just create flat out amazing work! These females are not only inspiring to the small, yet growing community of female designers, but they are inspiring to the design community in general. The following sites designed and created by females can be used as inspirational outlets, as well as design resources. These sites are listed in no particular order.
- Adelle Charles of Fuel Your Creativity
- Follow Adelle on twitter: @adellecharles
- Krissy Gogel of 6b Design
- Follow Krissy on twitter: @6bdesign
- Niki Brown of Design O’ Blog
- Follow Niki on twitter: @nikibrown
- Shannon Farrell
- Follow Shannon on twitter: @dolceshan
- Liz Andrade of CMD+Shift Design
- Follow Liz on twitter: @cmdshiftdesign
- Selene Bowlby of iDesign Studios
- Follow Selene on twitter: @idesignstudios
- Drew Europeo of Grafikas
- Sarah Parmenter of You Know Who Design
- Veerle Pieters
- Follow Veerle on twitter: @vpieters
- Sarah Lewis of Design Enabler
- Follow Sarah on twitter: @designenabler
- Jennifer Farley of Laughing Lion Design
- Follow Jennifer on twitter: @Laughing_Lion
- LaurenMarie of Creative Curio
- Follow LaurenMarie on twitter: @creativecurio
- Kristi Colvin of Design For Users
- Follow Kristi on twitter: @KrisColvin
- Tina Roth Eisenberg
- Follow Tina on twitter: @swissmiss
- Nikki of Design Nerd Blog
- Follow Nikki on twitter: @DesignNerdBlog
- Jina Bolton of Sushi & Robots
- Follow Jina on twitter: @sushimonster
- Randa Clay
- Follow Randa on twitter: @randaclay
- Tracey Grady
- Follow Tracey on twitter: @traceygr
- Vivien of Inspiration Bit
- Follow Vivien on twitter: @inspirationbit
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On March 9, 2009 at 3:24 pm Tracey Grady wrote:
Nice list, Antonea. I would add Randa Clay http://randaclay.com, Vivien at http://www.inspirationbit.com and myself (I hope!).
On March 9, 2009 at 4:56 pm Jennifer Farley wrote:
Wow, thank you for including me on this list. Am honoured!
On March 9, 2009 at 6:26 pm Shannon Farrell wrote:
Thanks again for including me! You should be on this list too
On March 9, 2009 at 9:31 pm Nikki wrote:
Wow i can’t believe I made it onto this list! Thankyou very much for including me….appreciate it
BTW you look very familiar and I don’t know why!
Thanks again!
On March 9, 2009 at 11:37 pm Liz wrote:
whoa, thank you so much for including me on this list of kick ASS ladies!
On March 9, 2009 at 11:39 pm Liz wrote:
OH! You know, I’ve been doing a series of interviews on my blog with kick ass freelance/small business owner ladies — i may have to mine this list for my next interview subject
MUAHAHA
On March 10, 2009 at 4:52 am David Airey wrote:
Hi Antonea,
Great choices. I stopped by from my feed reader to recommend a few others, and there they are in the first comment!
Vivien, of inspirationbit.com, Randa, of randaclay.com, and Tracey, of traceygrady.com.
On March 10, 2009 at 8:50 am Selene M. Bowlby wrote:
Oh wow! Thank you so much for including me on this list! I’m in amazing company here!!!
On March 10, 2009 at 9:40 am Antonea Nabors wrote:
Tracey:
Great mentions! I subscribe to Randa’s blog I can’t believe I forgot to include her! I am adding all of you to the list now. Great blog Tracey! I just subscribed.
Jennifer, Shannon, Nikki, Selene:
All of you girls definitely deserve to be on this list! I hope to see more awesome work and informative blog posts from you all soon!
Liz:
You have done some great interviews through your blog. Keep them up! I really enjoy reading them.
Your evil laugh is scaring me! Can’t wait to see what you brew up next! Haha
David:
Those are great recommendations made by Tracey. I am adding them to my list now. I’m glad you agree that this list has some great choices on it.
On March 10, 2009 at 7:50 pm Tracey Grady wrote:
Thanks for the listing and the subscription too! I found your blog via twitter and I think it’s off to a great start.
David, thanks for thinking of Viv, Randa and myself
On March 11, 2009 at 5:29 pm Krissy Gogel wrote:
Wow! Thanks a bunch for including me on this list – it’s quite an honor
On March 12, 2009 at 7:17 am The Obvservant One wrote:
Funny you put Sarah Lewis of Design Enabler in your list. She says her main service is making your designs into WP themes but it appears here own site is using the free Notepad Choas theme (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/20/notepad-chaos-a-free-wordpress-theme/) designed by Even Eckard ( http://www.evaneckard.com/) exclusively for Smash Magazine.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
On April 2, 2009 at 3:02 am inspirationbit wrote:
huh, I just discovered this site (via David Airey’s tweet on your Packaging re-designs post), started browsing through some of your previous posts and came across this one.
Thanks for including me to this list, Antonea, and special big heartfelt thanks to Tracey and David for their recommendations!
On April 2, 2009 at 4:15 am Antonea Nabors wrote:
Anytime Vivien! I am really thankful that David and Tracey referred me to your site! I’ve subscribed since
On May 1, 2009 at 6:20 am Sarah Lewis wrote:
@The Obvservant One: Just spotted your comment (I’m a little behind on tracking mentions, for reasons stated shortly
) and wanted to quickly clarify.
As you noted, I mostly convert other people’s designs to themes, but I do a bit of design myself, mostly for my own projects.
Lately, though, I’m not doing much of either; I had a baby right before Christmas and he’s keeping me as busy as clients ever have.
In fact, it’s thanks to him that I’m wandering around the Internet at this gosh-awful hour. (Bless his little insomniac heart.)
The Notebook Chaos theme is a nice one, and is intended to be temporary, but client work pretty much always takes priority over internal work (something about shoemaker’s children…) so we’ll see.
Anyway, I appreciate the mention on the list (and don’t mind being questioned… I’m questioning everything myself these days!).
On May 10, 2009 at 10:59 am Drew Europeo wrote:
Wow thank you Antonea for including me to this list
On May 10, 2009 at 11:29 am Jozias Dawson wrote:
Another I think is worth mention
Rina from >http://honeydesign.com. Nice post!
On May 10, 2009 at 5:18 pm Antonea Nabors wrote:
Sarah, thanks for justifying the ‘The Observant One’s’ comment and congrats on the little one
Drew, I am a huge fan of your work! I am particularly fond of a lot of your abstract pieces and all of the bright colors you incorporate. I dig it!
Jozias, thanks for the link to Rina’s site. I have never seen her portfolio before. It is really great. I will deficiently hold onto it for future round up of ladies when time comes.