Today, 05.22.10

The names are familiar, but the faces… well, not so much.

The early days of design certainly was a boys club, with only a few women able to gain recognition. Cipe Pineles, the utterly brilliant art director/designer, for years was denied membership into the Art Directors Club (she finally was the first woman to become a member in 1948) and Muriel Cooper, the legendary co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and The Visual Language Workshop, both helped paved the way for generations of future women designers.

Think of this as a “family album” where you can see what your eccentric and talented great aunts and uncles actually looked like. Let’s see who you recognize.