Speaker Laurie Rosenwald

American author, painter, illustrator, and principal of rosenworld, a design studio. Graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting. She is a recipient of awards from Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, American Illustration, Print Magazine, Communication Arts and AIGA. She lives in Manhattan.

Worked for Ikea, Sony Music, Warner Bros., The Sundance Channel, Bloomingdale’s, J. Walter Thompson, Bravo, Conde Nast, The Whitney Museum, Vintage Books, Little Brown, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Knopf, among countless others. Her typeface, Loupot, designed in collaboration with Cyrus Highsmith, is published by Occupant Fonts.

Illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The Baffler, and many other publications. She has authored and illustrated How to Makes Mistakes on Purpose (Hachette), All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem (Bloomsbury), And to Name but Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue (Blue Apple Books), and New York Notebook (Chronicle Books).

“How to Make Mistakes on Purpose”, has been hosted by Google, Adobe, Ikea, Scholastic, Starbucks, Artek, Collins, American Greetings, Kikkerland, Buzzfeed, Venturethree UK, Letterform Archive, Meredith, Edenspiekermann Berlin, BrandTrust, Family Action Network, Poster House, RGD Canada, GDC Canada, …..The details of this workshop remain a mystery, as participants are sworn to Omertà, the Mafia code of silence.

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