[1] Her education included studies in art history and languages at the University of Basel.

[citation needed] From 1965 – 1966, she was a designer at the Agency Halpern in Zürich, Switzerland.

She lives in Cheshire, Connecticut with her husband, political scientist and theorist of information design Edward Tufte.

[3] Druckrey has done free-lance work for European and American clients including Scholastic Inc., the Schoenberg Institute, IBM, New Jersey Transit, the University of Hartford, the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and the Porcelain Manufactory Fuerstenberg, Germany.

[5][6] In 2012 Andrei Severny made a documentary film about Druckrey's work called Teaching to See.