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Founded by graphic designer Mary Hemingway in June 2020, Design by Women aims to showcase and celebrate women, gender expansive and gender non-conforming creatives currently working in the design industry and to inspire emerging under-represented creatives to pursue a career in design.

We focus on sharing and celebrating inspiring visual communication —primarily (but not exclusively) — graphic, digital, motion, typeface and visual identity design, and illustration.

Mary Hemingway
Founder

Mary Hemingway

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Camila Cardenosa
Collaborator

Camila Cardeñosa

Camila is a Graphic Designer with over 10 years of experience in editorial and way-finding design based in Bogotá, Colombia. She completed a Masters degree at Central Saint Martins in London, where she developed her visual style and now her work primarily focuses on cultural projects. Currently freelancing, Camila regularly collaborates with editors, illustrators, art directors and designers on a wide range of projects including, beautifully produced books and exhibition design. She is also an ardent cat lover and enjoys takes care of her vast plant collection.

@camilacardenosa
cargocollective.com/CamilaCardenosa
Collaborator

Laura Bertinelli

Laura is a freelance Graphic Designer based in London, specialising in brand identity and art direction. She’s a multi-skilled, versatile designer with experience working on wide range of projects from editorial to illustration. Laura’s portfolio showcases her love of print design through her inspiring personal projects which are often created in collaboration with other female creatives. Laura’s passionate about supporting and connecting with the wider creative community, art, electronic and jazz music and practises yoga almost every day – she can even do a proper headstand!
@laurabertinelli
laurabertinelli.com
Collaborator

Helen Tong

Helen graduated from Shillington London’s three-month full-time course at the start of 2020. She hasn’t looked back since and has developed a sophisticated and well-crafted portfolio that showcases a strong concept driven visual style. This has led to freelance work and to her current role as Branding Designer for Siegel+Gale. Her claim to fame is getting told off by the footballer Ian Wright after crashing into him on her bike and her ideal night in would be playing board games until the early hours.

@helenhltong
helentong.com
Collaborator

Rebecca Burrows

Rebecca graduated in 2020 with a first class honours degree in Graphic and Communication Design from the University of Leeds. With a background in Fine Arts, Rebecca has a vibrant and confident design style. She’s particularly interested in typography and created side project ‘A Letter Each Day’, from which she developed her first typeface Sideways Display. Rebecca was featured on Craig Oldham’s 2020 Grad Showcase and currently works a Junior Designer at Pollitt & Partners in London. She is a tea lover with a growing selection of bold patterned/bright coloured trousers, and enjoys curating Spotify playlists.

@rebeccaburrowsdesign
rebeccaburrows.com
Tina Jiwa
Collaborator

Tina Jiwa

Branding specialist and designer Tina Jiwa developed her extensive skillset in various agency roles – including Head of Design at branding agency Noir in Manchester. Having realised that “building someone else’s dream” was no longer satisfying her, Tina began working as a freelance designer at the start of 2020. Tina is a strong advocate for supporting and developing new designers and gives talks, portfolio reviews and one-to-one mentorship for new graduates for platforms such as Creative Lives in Progress and The Arena UK.

tinajiwa.co.uk
@wordsbytina_
Nathalie Ellis
Collaborator

Nathalie Ellis

Illustrator Nat Ellis specialises in creating animal, wildlife, and children’s book illustrations. She creates a wide range of products featuring her amazing illustration work including, greetings cards, prints, notebooks and pin badges. Nat’s unique visual style often features fun, characterful animal portraits, with a particular focus on creating super cute cats and a love of bright colours and texture. She spends most of her spare time balancing family life with running her illustration business, experimenting with riso printing – in the absence of her own riso printer Nat even has digital riso brushes and she will soon be trying her hand at ceramics!
@natellisillustration
natellisillustration.co.uk
Jade Kuzak
Collaborator

Jade Kuzak

Graduating in 2020, Jade studied graphic design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. She started her career in animation at Hobbes, a motion design studio based in Detroit and recently moved to a new role as Motion Designer at COLLINS, a brand experience company based in NYC and San Francisco. Jade love’s being involved in the communities she’s part of and building connections with people. She wants to serve as a resource for fellow recent grads and POC that need support navigating the creative industry. So, when we asked her to be part of the DbyW team of collaborators, luckily for us, she couldn’t say no! Aside from being a motion designer, she’s also a word gamer and karaoke enthusiast and she was once invited to audition for The Voice tv show.
@jadekuzak
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