Motivated by the discussion from Tuesday (and Armin’s gentle prodding) I give you the following Show-and-Tell, which I offer as nothing more than a Friday afternoon diversion. I’ve chosen six book cover designs; can you guess the designers’ gender? Don’t be fooled by the subject matter: some choices are more obvious than others.
Familiar with the work already? There must be some other way you could kill ten minutes of your day; how about a brisk walk or a personal phone call? Alternately, you could post something of your own anonymously and see if we can guess your gender. (Based on the makeup of previous comments strings my bets are on “dude,” but you never can tell).
my guess...
1,3 female designer
2,4,6 male designer
5 hermaphrodite designer
this was harder than i would have thought. I always feel my work is very "male" looking.
related or unrelated, when cartooning, i have a hard time illustrating women. perhaps a childhood incident is to blame.
On Apr.18.2003 at 11:36 AM