Hello! Thanks for visiting my site.
My name is Liss Outwater, and I’m an artist and designer living in Philadelphia, PA. My path to design started when I was a kid, drawing out worksheets and booklets for my little brother when we played school. In high school I developed a passion for book and web design, and in college I honed my problem-solving and adaptability to work across multiple mediums. Since then I’ve worked primarily in digital design, creating websites for nonprofits, private brands, local businesses, and scientific labs.
My favorite projects are ones where I have to get a little scrappy and improvisational—your brand only has a logo, type, and colors? Let’s see what we can’t make out of that interesting whitespace in that mark, or the words you use to talk about yourself.
Outside my design work, I love to make things with my hands. Currently I’m interested in printmaking, quilting, and stop-motion animation. Quilting and printmaking often go hand in hand for me: I print designs on fabric using stamps I carve myself and work them into improvisational quilts. I took an art quilt course in Fall 2024 and have been bitten hard by the quilt bug!
Printmaking is also the way I support all my creative pursuits outside of design—I sell prints and products inspired by them through my shop veggiebed on Etsy.
As far as animation goes, I get to use the skills I learned in a workshop from Dogbotic to make promotional social media videos for the shop, but I’d love to make more longform narrative videos in the future.
I love the ways my different creative interests and skills feed into each other. If you have a project in mind that would be a good fit for any one or combination of them, feel free to email me at lissoutwater@gmail.com
