hello, and welcome.
I'm Katie she/her
Kathryn is a designer with around nine years of experience in print design and publishing. That's not a lot of time if you're a sequoia, but it's nearly a lifetime if you're a guinea pig (Kathryn falls somewhere in between). Kathryn has a love of the written word (and a degree in it!) and she has built a career marrying copy and visuals in the field of print design. She writes some herself, but it's her best-kept secret, and though she has experience copy editing to both AP and Chicago styles, it's been some time since she dusted off her manual. Unsurprisingly, she has strong opinions about Oxford Commas, and she's writing this in the third person because talking about yourself is hard.
Katie–as she's known among friends–is a constant learner, voluntarily and otherwise, because she somehow managed to befriend and work alongside a lot of really smart, talented people. She started her career in newspapers: a perfect introduction to tight deadlines and editorial direction. She made the transition to magazines in 2019, where she honed her layout design skills more creatively under the mentorship of some incredible art directors who remain dear friends. In her current role, Katie has mastered a very niche style of live design, accommodating clients in real time. Next on her bucket list of acquired skills is coding and web design (or getting back into knitting, whichever impulse strikes first).
Notably, she has NOT learned the use of any generative AI models or tools, and she has no intention to.
Katie lives in Minneapolis with her fiance in the vibrant and resilient Phillips neighborhood. Most reliably she can be found at home endeavoring to be as cozy as possible, either crafting, reading, filling her online shopping cart with things she doesn't purchase, or playing games with friends like Mario Kart or D&D. She needs the right song for every occasion, so she's got an endless string of playlists which you should not ask her about unless you'd like to hear how "ambient" and "relaxing" are two very distinct classifications.
This website is an in-process portfolio of a handful of projects she has worked on professionally and personally. She is always adding new stuff, so come back to check it out anytime. If you want to know more, pop over to the contact page and say hi.