International Women’s Day: A call to inspiration and creativity
From the article, Inspiring creative women to follow in 2022
Happy International Women's Day! And what better time could there be to celebrate some of the most amazing women in the creative sector? So in this article, we've gathered together a mix of emerging and established women working in their profession, all doing wonderful things to inspire your own career.
Rose Stewart
A senior member of the design team at independent London design studio The Frameworks, Rose plays a key role in generating creative concepts and outputs for all our clients. Her passion for people and storytelling is at the heart of every project, helping businesses and audiences forge authentic connections. Clients include IBM,World Community Grid and Tata Consultancy Services.
She especially loves to give a voice to the smallest details and is a big advocate for side projects. When Rose isn't in the studio, she can be found illustrating birds and championing kindness and mental health.
Read about more inspiring creative women in the full Creative Boom article, here.
Next, from the article, Creative leads on the women that inspire them most
While the creative industry is making moves towards gender equality, women remain fairly invisible in modern design history. Articles, books and documentaries about iconic creatives of the past generally focus overwhelmingly on men. But it's not like there aren't great female creatives to talk about too!
Maja Radosavljević
Maja Radosavljević is a creative strategist at The Frameworks.She joined the team on the day that lockdown began in 2020 and brought with her a fresh perspective to the London design studio. Armed with a degree in EnglishLiterature from Warwick University and a brain that taps into both left and right hemispheres, she's passionate about joining the dots between strategy and design to create more meaningful experiences. Since becoming a"Frameworker", she has been instrumental in shaping the studio's strategic direction in areas as diverse as contact centre software, reinsurance and digital transformation services.
Although Maja draws inspiration from many women, from Elif Shafak and AOC through to Ellen Ripley, someone she keeps coming back to is Georgia O'Keeffe. "The more I learn, the more amazed I am," she says. "Georgia was quite simply, the coolest. An independent spirit and a bold innovator. A fearless trailblazer. A visionary.Who else would have ventured out into the desert alone in a customised Model-A Ford cum mobile studio? Let alone a woman – in the 1930s – who had only just learned to drive. Always confident and comfortable in her own company, her style – in both fashion and interiors – is still considered chic today. She may have died nearly 40 years ago, but her legacy is still alive. And I am here for it."
Read more about great female creatives who continue to inspire today in the Creative Boom article, here.
And see some of our earlier thoughts on International Women's Day, here.