Jessica Walsh (born October 30, 1986)[1] is an American designer, art director, illustrator and educator.

She turned down a job at Apple where she was offered nearly $100,000 annually to accept the internship under Paula Scher at Pentagram, where she would stay for nearly a year.

[5][9] Walsh has stated that she turned down the Apple job offer because she knew she would be doing one type of design for one client that already had an established look and feel.

[11][12] In reflections about her time at Print magazine, she identifies it as one of the best things to happen in her career as it was how she found and developed her personal style.

[12] Her style has been described as "bold, emotional and provocative"[7] with the occasional surrealistic flourish,[17] and her art has been said to look "hand-made and at times quite daring.

[3] In 2013, Walsh and fellow designer and friend Tim Goodman decided to date for 40 days to see if they could overcome their relationship issues and fall in love.

They answered the same questions each day which were; In support of the blog, which earned more than 5 million unique visitors in less than a year,[5] they appeared in segments on talk shows Today[23] and The View.

[24] In September 2013, Warner Brothers purchased the film rights, with a screenplay to be written by Lorene Scafaria, and Michael Sucsy attached to direct.

[5][7] In 2016, Walsh and Goodman began a second project together, which they described as a "12-step experiment designed to open [their] hearts, eyes, and minds".

[29] Walsh started Ladies, Wine & Design, a nonprofit organization to encourage women and non-binary people to work together rather than compete, in 2016.

Walsh created Ladies, Wine and Design in response to the statistic that in the creative industry only three percent of women are in leadership positions.

This organization was born out of Walsh's personal experiences with sexism in the Design Industry, from both men and other women.

The long term goal for the organization is to take their initiative to underserved high schools to foster the future of women, non-binary and underrepresented people in creative communities.