Young Guns

Jessica Walsh is a designer, art director, and co-founder of Sagmeister & Walsh. Her NYC based design studio creates brand identities, commercials, campaigns, websites, apps, films, books, products and more. Clients include: Snapchat, Pepsi, Barneys, BMW, Oreos, Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times, Levis, Adobe, among many others.

Jessica lectures about creativity at conferences and universities internationally. She teaches design & typography at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her work has won awards from almost all major design and advertising competitions and featured in hundreds of books and magazines. She has been awarded numerous distinctions such as Forbes “30 under 30 top creatives designing the future” and Ad Age’s “Top 10 Visual Creatives”. Her work has been shown in museums around the world such as MoMA, MOCA Los Angeles, SF MoMA, ICA Philadelphia, Design Exchange Toronto, MAK Vienna, Les Arts Decoratifs, La Gaîté Lyrique, among many others. She hosts mentorship circles for creative women through her initiative Ladies, Wine & Design; which has spread to over 65 chapters in 30 countries around the world.

Jessica's personal project “40 Days of Dating” received over 10 million readers, and received international recognition including spots on “The Today Show” and “The View". The film rights to “40 Days of Dating” was bought by Warner Bros who are currently working on the script. Their book “40 Days of Dating: An Experiment” was just released by Abrams and is available for purchase online and in bookstores worldwide.