I designed this series of posters (there were 17 in all!) for Chiefs for Change’s annual meeting in 2023. We created a bold and interactive way to celebrate their members’ accomplishments.
I was proud to work with Be Clear. and ILO Group in creating this agenda for Women Leading Ed. You can download the entire report here.
I worked with Reading Partners to create these large volunteer recruitment banners for them to use at events.
Ventura Graphic Design won a 2023 American Graphic Design Award for the design of these banners!
The Oakland REACH is one of my favorite clients to work with. I love their bold style and color palette!
We used color coding, icons, and a clean layout to format this complex information into an easy-to-read one pager.
I had the pleasure of working with MidPen Housing to design this case study which explores the benefits of converting hotels into housing for people experiencing homelessness.
Combining playful icons, their bright color palette, and gorgeous gradients resulted in this eye-catching and welcoming report.
It was such a pleasure working with The Mind Trust on their Celebrating Education Innovation event. I designed the event logo, save the date, invitation, social media graphics, and program.
From the client, "I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the great graphic design work you did for our fundraiser. We really loved the event logo, social media images, and program. The look and collateral materials you created helped us to present our mission and stories in an amazing way! We appreciate working with you!"
Ventura Graphic Design won a 2023 American Graphic Design Award for these designs!
The Always Dream 2021–2022 Impact Report showcases this early elementary literacy organization’s successes over the past two years.
Please click here to see the full digital version of this report.
I updated the design for the Lawrence Hall of Science’s Visitors Guide. The main aspect of this project was redesigning the museum map to make it more user-friendly — easier to read and understand.
This is the event logo I designed for The Mind Trust’s Celebrating Education Innovation event. You can see the other collateral for this campaign here.
Evergreen Sustainability Alliance was overdue for a rebranding project. We took advantage of the downtime during 2020 and came up with a great new logo to bring them into the future. They wanted the logo to focus on community and sustainability. We achieved this using these three icons in natural “earth” tones.
Click here for an inside look at how this logo was designed!
This is an example of the new digital reports I am offering as alternatives to traditional PDFs. A digital report can be embedded right onto any page of your website. (I was surprised by how easy it was.) They are a nice modern upgrade from the traditional PDF. They also look great on your phone!
Please click here to see the full digital version of this report.
I worked with the Oakland REACH to create this one-pager to recruit literacy tutors in Oakland. I turned this from a text-heavy Word document into an eye-catching and engaging flyer.
Étoile Academy was in a need of a presentation that illustrated their strategic plan for the future. I designed this deck in PowerPoint, using their brand colors to clearly show each element of the plan.
This project was completed in partnership with Ampersand Education.
This State of Chiefs for Change deck was created in Google Slides.
I created this direct mail letter and reply form, envelope, and thank you postcard for The Mind Trust’s annual fundraising appeal. I have a long history of designing direct mail fundraising campaigns and would love to share my knowledge with you!
This one-pager was made to post in emergency departments across the country to help teams offer their patients life-saving buprenorphine.
The Mind Trust’s 2020 Annual Report focused on how they were helping schools adjust and adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. We used a lot of bold colors and bold fonts to deliver the information in a playful and friendly manner.
Two concepts kept coming up as we were working on the logo design for ECHO Learning: durability and the bridging of ideas. The ring of circles symbolizes durability—an echoing that repeats itself—a sign of lasting change. The bridging of ideas is shown in the word echo itself. The bottom stroke of the C becomes the “bridge” of the H and connects to the O. It’s so satisfying when typography hands you the answer.
There are 4 variations of the logo shown here: the main logo; the main logo on a dark background; a more square variation; and a round variation specifically for social media.
This is a funder deck for a new organization working to advance school integration and resource equity. It was created in PowerPoint.
View the Report Here
Chiefs for Change has done a lot of work throughout the COVID-19 crisis in helping schools to adjust and adapt. I am proud to be a part of this work by designing their reports to be accessible and digestible to their audiences.
For this brief we broke away from CFC’s usual report template to make this a more interactive “magazine-feel” piece.
This report included a lot of data that needed transferred to charts and graphs, quotes, and photography to be laid out into a legible and welcoming document.
We achieved this by using a landscape orientation, color blocks with curved edges, and duotone photographs to keep things clean and unified.
For Reading Partners’ 2021 annual appeal, they sent out a notecard with a postcard sized insert describing their current initiatives.
This logo is for my husband and good friend’s documentary production company. It was inspired by a late night sighting of a two-headed fox. Check out their debut doc, Carving Joy.
Chiefs for Change has done a lot of work throughout the COVID-19 crisis in helping schools to adjust and adapt. I am proud to be a part of this work by designing their reports to be accessible and digestible to their audiences.
This series of posters highlights the careers of 8 women in science. It can be viewed at The Lawrence Hall of Science, in Berkeley, California. It was very fun to match the bold colors of The Lawrence’s brand to these women’s photographs. These are my three favorite.
Ventura Graphic Design won a 2022 American Graphic Design Award for the design of these posters!
This is the poster for my husband’s documentary, Carving Joy. (Watch it here!) I don’t often get to flex my Photoshop skills like I did with this poster—it was really fun.
I designed these slides for a presentation to educate attendees about the benefits of buprenorphine for their patients.
Spelligent is a new charter school system that is in the application phase. The main concept that this logo illustrates is that Spelligent welcomes ALL children and helps them by breaking away from traditional school practices. ALL children are represented by the variety of dots as they bounce away from the straight rows and columns.
The logo needed to work with and without a tagline, as well as with the state marker (TX), and with both the state and the tagline.
The grid of circles is an icon for social media use.
And the last item you’ll see here is the 2nd place winner. This was one of those times where we worked on two versions of the logo throughout the project. And it wasn’t until the very end that the client chose to go with the dots. I’m including this variation here because I love it (though I agree that they made the best decision by going with the dots) and because it shows how very different things can turn out given the same set of instructions (and the same designer even!)
The Anchor Center for Blind Children needed a graphic designer to create an informational brochure to convey all of their program and service information to their clients. We went with a large format—a letter-sized trifold to allow everything to fit while still being attractive and legible. Bold colors and white space reflect the airiness and joy of their facility.
I designed the 2020 invitation for Fresh Youth Initiatives annual gala to be fresh and youthful.
This is a new consulting business that needs a brand that reflects the professionalism, expertise, and energy that Katinka brings to her clients. A modern, clean, and stylish logo is at the forefront of the new brand, reflected on the business card, PowerPoint template, and other necessary collateral.
I designed this promotional postcard for the Lawrence Hall of Science using their new brand colors and style.
Chiefs for Change needed a number of materials to promote their new report on Women in Leadership. In addition to the designing this educational nonprofit’s report, I designed a PowerPoint presentation template, event collateral, and social media graphics. The result was a cohesive and well-branded launch that highlighted the importance of this issue.
This was a quick logo design put together for The Mind Trust’s event about education during the pandemic. Sometimes the quick ones are the best!
I did the graphic design for this 75 page report outlining campus support for youth homelessness in California.
I designed this self-mailing trifold full page brochure outlining all of the school programs for the Lawrence Hall of Science. We made a lot of information easy to digest by using bold colors and strong headings in the graphic design of this brochure.
I designed The Mind Trust’s annual report to be alive with bright colors, bold numbers, and big impact.
This one-pager design for The Oakland Reach, an education nonprofit, needed to be bold and easy to digest. We achieved this by using highlighting and clear divisions of text, broken up with powerful photography.
I worked with Reading Partners to develop branding for their Reading Matters 2020 campaign. We developed a logo, one-pager, and set of social media graphics for this educational nonprofit.
This is a branding project for a new Zero Waste lifestyle blog. The client was after a logo that was bold and colorful. The rotating circle evokes the feeling of eco-friendliness without being too obvious. The finished logo is used on business cards (embedded with flower seeds) and blog.
This education nonprofit had a lot of information to include in their series of four one-pagers. I designed it using color blocks, bold icons, and a logical structure to make the information easy to digest and visually pleasing.
This is a series of nine one-pagers that I designed for The Mind Trust in coordination with Ampersand Education. The Mind Trust, an educational nonprofit, is using these to promote and inform people about Indianapolis schools. The use of color, icons, and variation in fonts make these easily digestible, despite the large amount of information on each page.
In 2018, Fresh Youth Initiatives created a 48-page book called Journeys. It is a collection of stories about immigration and migration as told by staff, participants, and board members. I was thrilled to be part of this project, and especially enjoyed including some of my hand drawn illustrations throughout the book.
The Anchor Center for Blind Children needed a simple marketing piece that outlined their successes for the year. We achieved this by using bold, primary colors and a design that reflects the architecture of their building.
Rocketship flyers are one example of when I've needed to design in a foreign language. While this does present unique challenges, it's always interesting and worthwhile to know we're reaching a wider audience. I have experience designing in Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Tongan, Hindi, Hmong, Khmer, and Tagalog!
I designed a series of event materials for Fresh Youth Initiatives’ 2019 Journeys gala. This included the event invitation, RSVP card, e-vite, save the date postcard, Journeys program book, sponsorship one-pager, and collateral for the event itself.
This logo was designed for OrgAmi, a "back-office solution for mission-driven organizations." The goal was a slightly techy but friendly logo that expressed how OrgAmi could raise an organization to another level.
