User:Vanessacristino/sandbox

Work Plan
I plan on working on the article, Ruth Ansel, for my find project. Some information on Ruth Ansel was already published on her Wikipedia page. There is a couple of things I would like to work on. First, if I am able to do so, I would like to add pictures of her on her page. I wanna change “Biography” to “life and career” because I think that makes more sense. Her page does not have a content link box, so I would like to add one. Her page also does not display any of her previous works and it does not have any information about her works. I would like to add a section about her the work that she had created throughout her years as a graphic designer. The page needs more citations and more external links. Maybe add more information about the companies that she worked with? And add more information about how she got into graphic designs. I want to find more reliable sources about her and post more information about her. Maybe add more about her personal life? Also, I would like to fix up some of the minor grammatical errors on her current Wikipedia page!

Annotated Bibliography
1) https://www.aiga.org/medalist-ruth-ansel-2016

2) http://halloffemmes.com/book/ruth-ansel/ Ruth Ansel has been the art director for Harper’s Bazaar, The new York Times, and Vanity Fair. She was the first woman to hold that position. Designed books such as The Sixties by Richard Avedon, Women and The White Oak Dance by Annie Leibovitz, and a master monograph for Tashen by Peter Beard. She won an award (Gold Medal for Design)

3) https://www.ruthansel.com/ Her website summarizes her work and some of her work is shown.

4) https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2010/06/art-director-ruth-ansel-slide-show-201006 Some of Ruth Ansel’s designs and she explains how she came up with the designs and how she feels about them. Bazaar Magazine issues.

5) https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/ruth-ansel/ Short summary stating how she was one of the youngest art directors and about her design studio.

6) https://www.printmag.com/interviews/ruth-ansel-2016-aiga-medalist/ Interview with Ruth Ansel.


 * Still working on getting more sources (Can't seem to find more on anything else besides google search)

Ruth Ansel Draft
Ruth Ansel is an American Graphic Designer. She has been an art director of three of the most influential magazine. She became the co-director of Harper's Bazaar magazine in the 1960s with Bea Feitler. In the 1970s she became an art director of The New York Times and in the 1980s, Vanity Fair. She was the first lady art director to hold these positions.

Early Career
She graduated from Alfred University in Western New York with a BFA in ceramic design. (https://www.aiga.org/aiga/content/inspiration/aiga-medalist/2016-aiga-medalist-ruth-ansel/) She moved to New York City and began working for Columbia Records under Bob Cato. (https://www.aiga.org/aiga/content/inspiration/aiga-medalist/2016-aiga-medalist-ruth-ansel/).

Bazaar Magazine
Bazaar magazine was considered on of the most influential fashion magazines in America because it perfectly displayed clean and modern layouts. (citation, art direction: Ruth Anself). When Ruth Ansel was first trying to get a job at Bazaar, she wanted to work there with art director, Henry Wolfe. Instead of finding Wolfe. she ended up finding Marvin Israel. Marvin Israel was a graphic designer for the magazine. Ansel did not have a graphic design portfolio when she met him, but he decided to take the risk and hire her anyways. Ruth Ansel stated that Wolfe liked the idea of her not knowing about graphic design cliches. Ruth Ansel worked with Be a Feitler, who was hired a month earlier and has a degree from the art school, Parsons.

Her first few months working at Bazaar magazine were a disaster. Ansel’s layouts were terrible and she wanted to quit but Marvin refused to let her quit. Marvin drove Ansel crazy and insisted that she stay many nights to get work done.

Ansel soon became a co-art director with Bea Feitler. One day Marvin got into a fight with the editor and chief, Nancy White over a cover that used a model (Danielle Weil] who looked like the editor of Vogue magazine, Diane Veeland. Nancy though it was a man in drag and she wanted to get rid of the cover. Marvin went crazy and then later on Nancy fired him. After Nancy fired Marvin, Ruth Ansel became a co-art director with Bea Feitler.

Ruth Ansel and Be a were often competitive with one another. But Ansel had a lot of catching up to do. Her layouts and her designs were very uneven and she found herself struggling to keep up with Be a (Citation: Art direction: Ruth Ansel). Bazaar magazine kept them two together because they worked well together and because their salary combined was less than an established male art director.

Ruth Ansel produced the now iconic April 1965 cover of Jean Shrimpton with a winking eye and a bright pink "helmet" that was cut and pasted from day-glo paper. In 1974, she left Harper's to become the first female art director of The New York Times Magazine.

The New York Times Magazine
In 1974, Ruth Ansel was hired to redesign The New York Times Magazine. Ansel was really scared to be working on one of the most influential magazines in the world. She was the first female art director of the magazine.

Her objective for the magazine was to work with new emerging photojournalists and introduce them to a sophisticated readership. She wanted the new redesign to reflect the times she was living in snd to do that in a way that would distinguish the new voices of visual journalism.

The New York Times magazine redesign was inspired by the London Sunday Times.

House & Garden
After Ruth Ansel worked on the New York Times magazine, she worked on redesigning House & Garden. She wanted the design to look modern, elegant, and sophisticated. On this project, she worked with photographer, William Eggleston. She wanted Eggleston to photograph Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis. At first, William Eggleston did not agree with the idea because he thought the project was beneath him and refused. But Ruth Ansel persuaded him to do the photo shoot.

Vanity Fair
Bea Feitler was working with Vanity Fair designs before Ruth Ansel got asked to work on designs. Be a Feitler unfortunately succumbed by caner and then Ansel was asked to work at Vanity Fair. Ansel refused to work on Vanity Fair but they insisted.

Personal Life
Ruth Ansel got married at age 21. She fell in love with and married designer Bob Gill (https://www.aiga.org/aiga/content/inspiration/aiga-medalist/2016-aiga-medalist-ruth-ansel/).