20 Facts About Jessica Walsh

Jessica Walsh was born on October 30,1986 and is an American designer, art director, illustrator and educator.

Jessica Walsh has taught at the School of Visual Arts.

Jessica Walsh began coding and designing websites at age 11.

Jessica Walsh became interested in coding from building a website homepage for her Neopet.

Jessica Walsh put Google Ads on her site and made a couple thousand dollars per month.

Jessica Walsh chose to go an art school to advance her design knowledge.

Jessica Walsh went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a BFA degree in 2008.

Jessica Walsh turned down a job at Apple where she was offered nearly $100,000 annually to accept the internship under Paula Scher at Pentagram, where she would stay for nearly a year.

Jessica Walsh has stated that she turned down the Apple job offer because she knew she would be doing one type of design for one client that already had an established look and feel.

Jessica Walsh knew her goal was to open her own studio and this job was not on the route to her goal.

Jessica Walsh then worked as an associate art director at Print magazine and had design work and illustrations appear in the New York Times and New York Times Magazine.

Jessica Walsh primarily worked with clients while Sagmeister traveled more and focused on his films.

Jessica 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.

Jessica Walsh has said that the studio is a fulfillment of her dreams as a teen to run her own business and the studio will become one of 36 female-led creative studios in the United States.

Jessica Walsh has a project called Let's Talk About Mental Health that is on her 12 Kinds of Kindness website.

In step four, Jessica Walsh writes about her past struggles with anorexia, depression and self-harm.

Jessica Walsh published the stories on the website and invited everyone to add their stories through the website.

Jessica Walsh created Ladies, Wine and Design in response to the statistic that in the creative industry only three percent of women are in leadership positions.

Ladies, Wine and Design started out as eight women in Jessica Walsh's apartment drinking wine, talking about design, and discussing their careers as women in the industry.

Jessica Walsh teaches design and typography at the School of Visual Arts in New York.