Thoughtful branding design, for all good things.
Ida Woldemichael is a New York City-based designer and creative director with 15+ years of design experience. The heart of her work is branding design for progressive causes and people. Her work spans from design with top-tier agencies to notable non-profit organizations including Hillary for America and The New York Times.
Ida received her Master of Fine Arts degree, in Graphic Design, from the Maryland Institute College of Art; and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Tech. She gained national recognition for her design work; winning an Art Directors Club award and Addy respectively. Ida served as a lead designer on the historic presidential campaign for Hillary Clinton, developing the popular supporter tagline, “I’m with her.”
She is currently a Senior Art Director at The New York Times.
photo: Ruben Chamorro
TALKS & CHATS
AIGA Design + Business conference 2021
First Generation Burden podcast
Layers 2017 design conference / A Design Conference for the Apple Community
AIGA NY / The Hillary for America Design Team
Parsons Art and Design History and Theory Roundtable Discussion, 2014
PRESS & FEATURED DESIGN WORK
Communication Arts: Insights / Designing for the People
The One Club / Creative Fire Council: Fight Gunfire With Fire
It’s Nice That / Winner of the NYC ‘I Voted’ sticker competition announced
Fastco Design / 10 New Designs For The “I Voted” Sticker. This is what democracy looks like.
Huffington Post / One Of These Designs Will Become NYC’s Next ‘I Voted’ Sticker
Museum of the City of New York / Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics
Fastco Design / The Story Behind “I’m With Her”
AIGA NY / Doing the Most Good: the Hillary for America Design Team Event Recap
Fastco Design / Want To Design For Social Progress? These Ex-Clinton Staffers Have Some Advice
Cosmopolitan / The Women of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Are Not Done Fighting
Teen Vogue / Inside Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Headquarters in Brooklyn
New York Mag, The Cut / Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Has More Black Women Than Any Presidential Campaign in History
Time Out New York / Studio, Harlem. Graphic designer Ida Woldemichael creates an elegant space, full of mementos from her travels
Apartment Therapy / Ida’s Sugar Hill Studio
Logo Lounge Master Library Series: Initials & Crests, Rockport Publishers, L’Enfant Plaza logo
Ellen Lupton, D.I.Y. Design It Yourself, Princeton Architectural Press
contact idawoldemichael@gmail.com