Design Democracy

Die Grafikdesignerin Marta Veludo spricht über den Einfluss des Mutterwerdens und ihrer Mutterschaft auf ihre freiberufliche Karriere und wie beide von außen bewertet wurden:

“Gender roles in my profession has never really been a question, mostly because I am a freelancer and I am neither in contact with toxic masculine environments nor do I have team peers I don’t like. But that changed since I became a mother 3 years ago! As career-focused as I was, I got quite shocked by the change. Mostly regarding time + creativity. Society always requires more from designers: stay up to date, do faster and better and crazier and always push the limits. I realized that I don’t know many freelancing mother graphic designers that kept this rhythm. Even when I was pregnant I researched articles about it and only found one by Jessica Hische. I am invited to talks, and I am almost the only mother & designer. You wonder why! I can keep doing this because me and my partner are a team (most of the times) and I am lucky to have found a team at work too, but I know society doesn’t treat us equally, in what is to be expected as a mother and a designer. For the introduction at the moment, I am more a studio, rather than one women band. I have a team of 2 great designers with me!”

–Marta Veludo ()