Chris Raymond

Chris has diverse experience creating effective, award-winning visual communications as a graphic designer, web designer, science museum exhibit researcher/writer, science journalist, and publications director for an association of hands-on science museums. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University with emphasis in mass media and sociology of science; her dissertation examined coverage of occupational health in the mainstream and alternative press.

Chris’s strong suits as a designer are typography, color, integrating imagery and text, and information hierarchy. After changing careers and formally studying graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University, Chris taught herself html, css, and Flash animation and has been known to lurk in Javascript libraries. For “fun,” she deconstructs websites with Web Developer and Firebug to learn new tricks, and keeps up with web design “best practices” blogs.

She tries very hard to ignore poorly kerned logotypes on the sides of vans and buses—not always with success—and believes strongly in the practice of safe design: Using a concept.

In her spare time, Chris takes printmaking and crafts workshops, collects new and vintage wind-up toys, push puppets, and metal tins, and plays a mean game of basketball. Under the umbrella of www.girlmeetsart.com, she creates and writes about crafty projects and the creative process.