Jessica walsh1/6/2024 ![]() Jessica Walsh, The First Thing I Ever Designed: Early work for Print magazine, Regional Design Annual. Since I knew how to do photography, illustration, and set design and we had no budgets, I took it upon myself to do as much as possible on my own. There was less money to hire outside photographers and illustrators for covers and interior illustrations. “I started at Print in 2008 right after the economy crashed, and budgets at the magazines were slashed. “In the end, taking the job at Print was the best thing that happened in my career as it allowed me the space to develop my personal style. I remember feeling very disappointed at that time I really, really wanted a full-time position at Pentagram. I was hesitant to take the job, because I loved working at Pentagram, and they had said that if a position opened they would like to hire me, there were just no full-time openings at that moment. “I had been interning and doing freelance work for Pentagram for several months after graduating when Paula Scher received an email from Kristina DiMatteo at Print magazine saying that they were looking for an associate art director. My goal was always to open my own design studio, so I wanted to work at a studio that I respected to learn as much as much as possible beforehand. “I knew in my heart that I wanted to work in branding. Jessica Walsh, The First Thing I Ever Designed: Early cover work for Print magazine. Today, Walsh tells us the story of how she developed her distinctive early style, and the projects that taught her the skills she’d need to become a partner of her own firm at the age of 25. ![]() And whether you love or hate the notion of design celebs, Walsh is memorable: who could forget the nude photo announcing her partnership with Stefan Sagmeister to form Sagmeister & Walsh, or the continual stream of love life confessions from her 40 Days of Dating collaboration with Tim Goodman, or her now very ubiquitous bright paper-made sets that fans fawn over on design blogs and in magazines? Walsh extended her branding skills to the creation of her own distinct persona. She’d just graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and was determined to follow her dream of working on a range of projects, as opposed to being under the thumb of a single brand. ![]() After turning down a graphic design job with Apple for around $100k per year, Walsh instead took a three-month internship with Paula Scher at Pentagram. What do you do if you’re offered a well paid, even half-decent job straight out of art school? In an uncertain economy and a landscape of unpaid graduate labor, most would say that you take it. ![]() ![]()
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