Viktoria Lange, Junior Graphic Designer for Nestig, is a doodle, shape, and color aficionado with roots in New York City and Philadelphia. She credits both metropolises for challenging her to be uber-creative and push the envelope in her work. Lange also derived some inspiration from across the pond, rounding out her ultimate vision and style. “My family is German, so spending a lot of time in Europe has also influenced how I understand visual language,” she says. 

Lange’s design and personal philosophy is that we are the jubilant result of our lived history. “All of your experience has led you to this moment, and you contain multitudes, so trust that,” she says. The idea of ever-evolving and trusting oneself leads Lange to dismiss a commonly-heard design advice. “The worst piece of advice I’ve ever heard is that you have to ‘work on yourself’ before you can make progress,” she says. “That implies that we, as humans, reach a point where we are finished products, which we are not.”

Lange’s road to design took her into the teaching and performance art space. “My initial goal was to become a theater professor at a university, but I pivoted into design last year,” she says. “When COVID hit, I decided I needed something still highly creative and collaborative but a bit more pandemic-proof. I have no regrets.”

Despite the recent discovery of her design chops, Lange feels her love for design is intrinsically built-in. “I think it was always there, despite the fact that I wasn’t always a designer,” she says. “Being a theater person, I was constantly thinking of structure, storytelling, and how moments were perceived by an outside eye.”