The Creative Minds Behind Martha

Before any ill-fated “Apprentice”, there was Gael Towey, the founding design director of Martha Stewart Living, and the woman you can pretty much thank for revolutionizing the women’s-lifestyle-DIY-crafting-cooking magazine market. The look and feel of Living set the tone for the entire Martha empire, its custom-designed typefaces and clean, white layouts translating neatly into a website, television, and lines of Martha products like Kmart’s Everyday.

If you’re thinking Stewart really owes it all to Towey, she did manage to give her one incredible bonus: Stewart introduced Towey to the designer who would become her husband, Stephen Doyle, of the esteemed Doyle