Laurie Rosenwald (born 1955) is an American author, artist, Emmy-nominated animator,[1] and principal of rosenworld, a design studio.
As a designer, Laurie has worked for Ikea, Sony Music, Warner Bros., The Sundance Channel, Bloomingdale's, J. Walter Thompson, Bravo, Conde Nast, The Whitney Museum, Vintage Books, Little Brown, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Knopf, among countless others.
Her paintings have been exhibited by Sotheby’s, Chashama, and Spring/Break Art Show 2020 and 2021, in New York, Galerie Pixi in France, and Galleri Konstepidemin in Sweden.
She has written essays for Communication Arts where her articles include How to Make Mistakes on Purpose,[6] Illustration: Graphic Design’s Poor Relation,[7] and Mutant Bastard Yucky Colors of the Apocalypse.
Rosenwald runs a popular creativity workshop, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose",[9] which has been hosted by schools and corporations in both North America and Europe, including Johnson & Johnson, Kurt Andersen's Studio 360, TEDx, Starbucks, Google, Adobe, BuzzFeed, Art Directors Club, AIGA New York, Edenspiekermann in Berlin and schools such as RISD, MICA, Camberwell and CalArts.