User talk:Leahrosa/MaryVoorhees

Mary Voorhees (b. 1980) is a young American artist and graphic designer. She was born in Austin, Texas and moved to the East Coast to attend Princeton University. After spending 3 years working at a small architecture firm in New York City, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut to attend the Yale University School of Art. Her multi-disciplinary approach to graphic design has allowed her involvement in projects ranging from poster design and branding to the design of books and magazines. She recently completed the design for Retrospecta with Kate Thatcher and Kurt Evans, and is currently working on Perspecta with Tal Schori and Matthew Roman. In addition, she is working on an 100 author biography of herself which will be self-published in 2010.

Personal History
While working at ARO in New York, the young Rosie Weinberg met Mary - not in the elevator as has always been assumed - but in Mary's office. They were introduced by a common coworker of theirs who had been let go from ARO when her project ended and had begun to work for Thomas Phifer and Partners where Rosie was employed. Mary and Rosie had similar jobs and often chatted about similar projects in the elevator at 180 York Street. Rosie thought that Mary was super cool and really wanted to be friends, but it took until they were both graduate students at Yale (albeit in different departments) for their friendship to blossom. Rosie has always admired Mary for her ability to come up with clever, layered and hilarious ideas for projects and carry them out rigorously for functional projects. Rosie also thinks that Mary has a wicked sense of humor and slick dance moves. In addition, Rosie thinks Mary has a unique mix of strength, smarts and foxiness. Rosie thinks Mary is going to be even more famous and notable than she already is. (Leahrosa (talk) 03:17, 30 November 2008 (UTC))

Awards
In 2008 she won the design for Designing Politics - The Politics of Design organized by the IFG Ulm GmbH.