Barbara de wilde biography of williams

A designer today must be nimble—eager and able to pivot fast. The technology changes so fast that building a design career on a single specialty may be satisfying for a time but never forever.

Sometimes it involves retraining, sometimes it necessitates entering a new profession, and sometimes it means knitting a variety of interests into a unique expertise.

Barbara de wilde biography of williams

That is the case here.

Beginning in 1991, Barbara de Wilde became known for designing hundreds of splendid and memorable book jackets and covers at the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as well as Simon and Schuster, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Penguin Press, W.W.

Norton and others, until she ran out of creative steam.

After 10 years in book publishing, de Wilde transitioned to magazines, and in 2001 became art director at Martha Stewart Living to initiate a major redesign. Her interest for editorial was eclipsed by the dawn of the digital age.

In 2011 she was accepted into the SVA Interaction MFA IXD program, and upon gradua