The ingredients of good writing

Posted 15th November 2011 • By Design Indaba • Topic Graphic Design & Illustration • Category Design Snippets
Espresso for Marcel Proust, vinegar for Lord Byron, milk for Franz Kafka and other ingredients of good writing.

Wendy Macnaughton is an illustrator with a penchant for good art, good food and good work.

She has spent most of her life in transit, living in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Paris and East Africa before moving back to her hometown of San Francisco. She’s written advertising copy, designed humanitarian campaigns in Kenya and Rwanda, produced a film in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sold used books, counselled survivors of torture, and served as a social worker and non-profit advertising campaign director.

She created and illustrated the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda. She creates artwork for Juxtapoz, GOOD, TimeOut NY, 7x7 Magazine, Longshot and Gizmodo.

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