{"id":4385,"date":"2017-05-25T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:05:17","slug":"designer-spotlight-mitzi-wickersham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/designer-spotlight-mitzi-wickersham\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: Mitzi Wickersham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Since the age of 15, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitziwick.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitzi Wickersham<\/a> knew she wanted to pursue her passion for graphic design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI really love old posters, like from the 60s and 70s\u2014anything that\u2019s a print-based type of graphic, going back to the printing press,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Indiana University Bloomington graduate defines her design style as \u201cclean, simple, uncluttered, and functional.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4431 size-full\" title=\"Mitzi Wickersham Designer Highlight for Business Cards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-4.png\" alt=\"Mitzi Wickersham Designed these beautiful, simple and functional custom business card.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-4.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-4-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-4-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She pays tribute to well-known graphic designers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herb_Lubalin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herb Lubalin<\/a> and Lotta Jansdotter in her work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLubalin\u2019s typesetting and iconic logos and posters were very bold, simple, and type-heavy,\u201d Wickersham said. \u201c I love how he was always able to make a major statement with very \u201clittle\u201d design. More of a modern designer that I follow is Jansdotter. She is a print and pattern maker, and I adore her simple, hand-drawn patterns that are Scandinavian inspired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4432 size-full\" title=\"Mitzi Wickersham Pattern Design\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-3.png\" alt=\"Mitzi Wickersham often uses pattern design in her business card designs.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-3.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-3-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-3-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most of Wickersham\u2019s work revolves around small business branding, ranging from single freelance photographers to a startup granola bar company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI enjoy [working with] companies that need help with their whole brand and not necessarily hoping to just get a logo and a business card, even though I do get a lot of those too,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the small business branding and marketing is definitely my favorite part.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the past six years, Wickersham has primarily used our services to create premium, <a href=\"\/business-cards\">custom business cards<\/a> and occasionally flyers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4433 size-full\" title=\"Mitzi Wickersham Graphic Designer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-2.png\" alt=\"Mitzi Wickersham creates spectacular sell sheets for small business branding.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-2-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-2-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4434 size-full\" title=\"Primo Print client Mitzi Wickersham\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-1.png\" alt=\"Her work revolves around small business branding, ranging from single freelance photographers to a start up granola bar company.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-1-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-1-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI started working with you guys when you only had one printing facility, so I\u2019ve worked with you guys for quite a while,\u201d she said. \u201cYou guys had great pricing on Spot UV. And then I kept coming back to you because your customer service is the best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4435 size-full\" title=\"Mitzi Wickersham Custom designed business cards.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-5.png\" alt=\"Mitzi Wickersham simple business card design.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-5.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-5-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mitzi-5-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Those interested in learning more about Wickersham and her design services should visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitziwick.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mitziwick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Interested in being featured for our Graphic Designer Spotlight? Reach out to <a href=\"mailto:brooke@primoprint.com\">Brooke@primoprint.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the age of 15, Mitzi Wickersham knew she wanted to pursue her passion for graphic design. \u201cI really love old posters, like from the 60s and 70s\u2014anything that\u2019s a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14916,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions\/14916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primoprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}