DATE: 12/21/2012 | BY SHARON HELGASON GALLAGHER

"Why was she left out?"
Women in Graphic Design
Featured Designer:
Cipe Pineles

Women in Graphic Design 1890 - 2012, the 600 page copiously illustrated survey from Jovis, is the first full-fledged history of the women pioneers of graphic design from 1890 to the present. Reproduced here is the striking work of Cipe Pineles for the January 1954 cover of Charm magazine. As Martha Scotford asks in her essay: "Cipe Pineles was a design innovator. Why, when the history came to be written, was she left out?.... The career of the American designer Cipe Pineles presents us with a much needed opportunity to explore new ways of writing design history. As an illustrator, design teacher and art director working primarily in women’s magazines, she was an exemplary professional, an intriguing individual, and a valuable role model. Yet despite her many achievements, Pineles has never entirely received her due." Women in Graphic Design 1890 - 2012 includes essays tracing the history of women in graphic design and features a sorely needed encyclopedia of the key women graphic designers from 1890 to the present. Highly recommended.