Graphic designer Jessica Walsh has started her own company after nearly a decade working alongside fellow designer Stefan Sagmeister at New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh.
Walsh, who is partner and art director at Sagmeister & Walsh, announced today on her Instagram account that she has launched her own creative agency called &Walsh.
Walsh has brought the creative team she was in charge of at Sagmeister & Walsh with her to the new company, which will be based in the same building in New York's Flat Iron area.
Walsh and Sagmeister will continue to work together on art projects under the Sagmeister & Walsh name, but Sagmeister will not be involved with any &Walsh projects.

 

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"Huge, life changing news! Today I launch my new creative agency &Walsh," Walsh wrote on Instagram alongside a picture of her dressed in white against a grey desert backdrop with orbs, rocks and red smoke.
Walsh also used Instagram to reveal the visual identity of the new company, which features a cursive ampersand, as well as an &Walsh branding case study including campaigns for Israeli cloud-based web development platform Wix and American fashion brand Milly.
The new company joins a very short list of creative agencies around the world that are led by women.

To coincide with the launch, Walsh publi...