JOSIE YOUNG
Josie Young is an independent designer of brands, websites, print bits and digital bits and writer of headlines, panels and interviews. Josie has been an active part of the wider design community throughout her career, doing things like speaking at Adobe MAX, Semi Permanent and Sydney Design Festival, facilitating panel discussions for This Is Not University, co-hosting podcast interviews for Australian Design Radio, volunteering with AGDA and lecturing at universities. Before flying solo, Josie was a designer at Christopher Doyle & Co., where she worked with clients like Bell Shakespeare, YSG and Spotify. In 2018, Josie was awarded AGDAs inaugural Emerging Designer of the Year award. Since then, she’s still trying to figure out what exactly to ‘emerge’ toward but she's having a nice time doing nice work for nice people.
What is one thing you would change/create to make the world a better place for women?
I'd abolish the 'circle where it hurts' and 'on a scale of 1-10 how much pain are you in' methods of assessing pain that are still used in medicine and push for a shift in focus to more individualised, nuanced, pain care. The 'women are born with pain built in' line from Fleabag hit me so hard it caused a flare up. We're often told the pain we're in is normal, but pain shouldn't ever be normal. Pain is complex and it should be treated as such.
Instagram: @josieyoung
Twitter: @josieyoung_
