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Alexandra Zsigmond

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Michelle Williams

Ben Blum

Roger Nierenberg

Amy Smith

Nishma Robb

Sophie Thomas

Emma Thomas

Hannah Taylor

Claudia Schreier

Penny Woolcock

Astrid Goldsmith

Emma Sexton

Anna Valdez

Sam Conniff

Rebecca Davis

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Alexandra Zsigmond is an editorial art director and artist. She worked at the New York Times for a seven year period on the Sunday Review and Opinion sections. In this episode, Alexandra discusses managing tight deadlines (on a weekly basis), the importance of research for fuelling creativity, the need to take time to develop her own art practice and her interest in visual metaphor.  🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit!  💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372   Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/

Alexandra Zsigmond is an editorial art director and artist. She worked at the New York Times for a seven year period on the Sunday Review and Opinion sections. In this episode, Alexandra discusses managing tight deadlines (on a weekly basis), the importance of research for fuelling creativity, the need to take time to develop her own art practice and her interest in visual metaphor. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372</a> Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/</a> 🐦 Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11</a> 🔗 LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/</a>

S1 Ep13: Editorial Art Director & Artist - Alexandra Zsigmond 🇳🇱

Alexandra Zsigmond spent 7 years doing art direction for the New York Times’ Opinion section before deciding to refocus her energy on personal creative pursuits. In this week’s conversation we chat about her “dream job” as an Art Director and her current process of creative recovery.  Alexandra is an award-winning art director and visual thinker working at the intersection of fine art, illustration and editorial design. Her core interest lies in the use of metaphor and symbolism in visual art, as a tool to represent complex ideas and visualize the invisible realms of mind, thought, and emotion. Since writing her honors thesis on visual metaphor at Stanford University in 2004, she has explored this interest through multiple roles and media: as art director, curator, and designer of metaphoric imagery for newspapers, books and exhibitions.  She has collaborated with a roster of over 1000 artists worldwide and art directed over 4000 editorial illustrations. She is known for greatly expanding the range of visual contributors to the Times, drawing equally from the worlds of contemporary illustration, fine art, animation, and comics. To follow her adventures and see some of her creative work, follow Alexandra on Instagram @zsigmonda.

Alexandra Zsigmond spent 7 years doing art direction for the New York Times’ Opinion section before deciding to refocus her energy on personal creative pursuits. In this week’s conversation we chat about her “dream job” as an Art Director and her current process of creative recovery. Alexandra is an award-winning art director and visual thinker working at the intersection of fine art, illustration and editorial design. Her core interest lies in the use of metaphor and symbolism in visual art, as a tool to represent complex ideas and visualize the invisible realms of mind, thought, and emotion. Since writing her honors thesis on visual metaphor at Stanford University in 2004, she has explored this interest through multiple roles and media: as art director, curator, and designer of metaphoric imagery for newspapers, books and exhibitions. She has collaborated with a roster of over 1000 artists worldwide and art directed over 4000 editorial illustrations. She is known for greatly expanding the range of visual contributors to the Times, drawing equally from the worlds of contemporary illustration, fine art, animation, and comics. To follow her adventures and see some of her creative work, follow Alexandra on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/zsigmonda" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@zsigmonda</a>.

Alexandra Zsigmond – On creative recovery