Gitta received her initial training in design in Berlin.  Her interest in design has persisted throughout her artistic career and has allowed her excursions into a variety of media.
In Germany, she studied textile design, desing on fabric, not weaving.  Years later, following her professional career as a commercial artist, she was able to build on her interest in fabrics and design in Poona, India where she learned traditional batik and block printing techniques.
When she returned to Canada and established her own studio she returned to designing on fabric which led to designing with fabric where she often used her own batiks in applique design in the creation of wall hangings.
One of the most interesting challenges presented to her as a designer has been to work through the complexities, aesthetic and technical, presented by different media.  So, for example, when designing with fabrics in applique, the brilliance of colours, variety of textures and simplicity of form and line led to several years of experiments in the use of stained glass and, finally, her most challenging undertaking to date, a wall 30' x 8' in six stainless steel panels for the A C Nielson Company head office in Markham, Ontario.
The work in fabric designs and stained glass assemblies led her to design experiments on tiles where she found that she could maintain her interest in colour and surface, while at the same time become involved with detailed surface decoration in a way that was not possible in eithere fabric applique or glass.  She designs on tiles, she is not a ceramicist.  She finds designing on tiles personally satisfying because she can work out her ideas more quickly, with more spontaneity within a broader range of technical alternatives.  The design imagery evolves rapidly and opens new paths for further work.