A very established graphic designer is Ruth Ansel. Ansel made her debut as a designer in 1962 and became the youngest and first female to achieve, in order: co-art director of Harper’s Bazaar, director of the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity fair, and House & Garden. Ansel has also received The Gold Medal for Design, Design Award for Continuing Excellence in Publication Design by the Society of Publication, and was an AIGA medalist. She pushed the boundaries of magazine design and created covers for almost 5 decades, that are era-defining Ruth Ansel and the magazines and newspapers she worked for appealed to me, because of the different elements of her pieces and strange props and surroundings. Working with photographers, illustrators, and, artist. Ansel has worked with some very famous people such as Andy Warhol and Bruce Weber. Another achievement of hers is she also designed Alice in wonderland the book and then adapted into a movie. In the 90s she created her own design studios where she kept creating notable books. I have actually admired pieces that belong to her, not knowing who created them or even wondering. In my Mema’s, aka grandma, Florida house she has paintings of large versions of some of these works.


