sagmeister&walsh

After a year at Pentagram, she moved on to Print Magazine, where she had her work featured in the The New York Times and The New Yorker. She then met Stefan Sagmeister in 2010, a very well-known and eccentric designer and typographer based in New York, who founded his own firm Sagmeister Inc. specifically curating design for the music industry. After seeing Walsh’s portfolio, he offered her a job, and within two years, she became a partner at 25, changing the firm’s name to Sagmeister & Walsh.

Her bold and provocative, often surrealist style took on new waves when working at Sagmeister as she continued to prove to clients her daring and modern approaches had a great deal to offer. With Sagmeister, she collaborated on Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh, a five-month exhibition that explored the concept of happiness, at the Jewish Museum in March 2013. During this year, Walsh also worked on a project called 40 Days of Dating, a social experiment involving dating a fellow designer, Timothy Goodman, for 40 days. It was documented on a blog then turned into a book, and it went viral. Prominent clients also included Parle Agro, Izze, and Bombay Sapphire.

At the agency however, Walsh was met with misogyny in the workplace and consistent underminement by clients and other designers. “When I was named partner with Stefan at the age of 25, many men and women said (publicly!) that I only got the position because I slept with him. Can you imagine them saying that about a man? Then as a partner, I was ignored and talked down to by older men in more meetings more than I care to remember.” She was adamant to expand beyond the boxes created for her as a woman in the industry and only saw one means to accomplish it.