Jessica Walsh
| Jessica Walsh | |
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| Born |
October 30, 1986 New York |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality |
 American
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| Alma mater | Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 2008) |
| Occupation | Art director & partner, Sagmeister & Walsh |
| Years active | 2008-present |
| Website | sagmeisterwalsh.com |
Jessica Walsh (born October 30, 1986) is an American graphic designer, art director and illustrator, and a partner at creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh.
Walsh was born in New York and raised in nearby Ridgefield, Connecticut. She began coding and designing websites at age 11 and went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
After earning her BFA from RISD in 2008, Walsh moved to New York City to intern at design firm Pentagram for nearly a year. She then worked as an associate art director at Print magazine and had design work and illustrations featured in various books, magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Times Magazine.
In 2010, Walsh met Stefan Sagmeister. He looked through her portfolio and offered her a job at his design studio, Sagmeister Inc. In June 2012, after two years at the firm, Walsh was made partner, at age 25. In homage to a nude self-portrait Sagmeister had sent out to announce the formation of his own firm 19 years prior, the new partners released a photo of themselves naked in their office to announce the renaming of the firm to Sagmeister & Walsh.
Blending handcraft, photography and painting with digital design, Walsh works primarily on branding, typography, website design and art installations. Her signature style has been described as "bold, emotional and provocative" with the occasional surrealistic flourish, and her art has been said to look "hand-made and at times quite daring." Walsh has worked on projects for clients including Levi's, Aizone, Adobe and Colab Eyewear, and rebranding efforts for The Jewish Museum of New York and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. Walsh and Sagmeister collaborated on Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh, an exhibition that opened at the Jewish Museum in March 2013, and ran for five months. For the exhibit, an exploration of happiness, they created a sound-activated sculpture and five short films.
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