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About Bibi Dowell

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How I design

Passionately designing for a purpose

Twenty-five years of growing up and living in New York City fundamentally shaped my design approach, theory, and purpose as a visual communicator.

The ultimate training ground was the city itself. I was surrounded and inspired by unfiltered graffiti, guerrilla marketing, and the raw aesthetics of immigrant communities, and by the city’s complex reality—the way it lives, breathes, influences, and tears down its inhabitants, exposing me directly to the disparity of privilege and poverty.

My exposure, education, and experience with innovative and avant-garde design, designers, and design theory solidified my love and calling to this medium.

This immersion in creative extremes and excellence created the powerful bedrock that drives my creative strategy today.

My career as a design professional allows me to exercise my creativity with purpose. I’m challenged with visually communicating for clients who are on a mission.

I consider myself lucky to be doing work I love for people and organizations I admire. My happiest day will be when all of us taking part in “fighting the good fight” no longer have to do so.

I enjoy laughing at inappropriate jokes, learning about the human experience, drinking tea, good conversation, exploring, listening to ’90s music, being bossed around by my daughter and wishing it were Summer.

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INSPIRATIONAL WORDS

Don't take yourself so seriously.

Bibi Dowell

Conformity is the antithesis to creativity.

Unknown

Designers actually can change the world for the better by making the complicated simple and finding beauty in truth.

Michael Bierut

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Dinos Christianopoulos

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

bell hooks

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds us that we belong here.

Toni Morrison

Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind; withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.

Maynard James Keenan

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Michael Bierut

It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

Paula Scher