Helen Walters

Helen Walters

Helen Walters is the editor of innovation and design at Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, where she has covered the intersection of business and design since 2006. A native of Sheffield, England, she moved to New York City in 2002 to found and edit the online, acclaimed, now-defunct design magazine, IDANDA.NET.

Prior to her American life, Helen was the features editor at the British design magazine, Creative Review, for which she is still a contributing editor. She has also written for numerous international design publications and is regularly invited to take part in discussions about the goings-on within the business of design at conferences around the world. She has also served as a juror on a number of international award panels.

The author of five design-related books, including a trilogy on contemporary T-shirt graphics and a collection of experimental animated short films from 1940, she has also written essays for monographs by a number of leading edge creative professionals. And, as if that weren’t more than enough Helen Walters for one lifetime, she tweets, @helenwalters.