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Katie Kaplan

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I’m a strategic senior brand designer and art director with 14+ years of experience creating integrated campaigns, scalable brand systems, and high-impact creative—especially for healthcare organizations and nonprofits.

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I’m a strategic senior brand designer and art director with 14+ years of experience creating integrated campaigns, scalable brand systems, and high-impact creative—especially for healthcare organizations and nonprofits. I love translating complex information into clear, compassionate storytelling, and I bring strong creative leadership along with hands-on design production across digital, print, video, and environmental touchpoints.

I also focus on creative operations: building repeatable workflows, templates, and documentation that improve consistency, accessibility, and speed to market. From mentoring teams and managing brand governance to applying WCAG accessibility principles and using AI-assisted tools responsibly, I work to make great design easier to deliver at scale—whether that’s across 150+ clinic locations or for award-winning storytelling initiatives.

  • 21 years' experience
  • Joined October 2026

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Non-Profit Organization
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 4 roles

Senior Visual Designer · Medulla, LLC / Chiro OneMay 2026 – Present · 7 mos

Design and produce creative assets and integrated marketing materials across 150+ healthcare clinic locations, including advertising, recruitment campaigns, clinic branding, organic social media, brochures, environmental graphics, video, and digital content. Mentor a team of 4 with creative guidance and workflow support to ensure consistent, high-quality output. Create systems, templates, and production workflows that streamline design and content processes and improve brand consistency across marketing, social, web, recruitment, and clinical teams. Apply WCAG accessibility principles and use AI-assisted tools to support creative development, research, content production, and workflow automation. Support the Brand Ambassador content program and contribute to website redesign and SEO initiatives, improving content structure, accessibility, UX, and QA processes.

Media Specialist / Brand Designer · Shriners Children’s ChicagoSep 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, print, video, events, fundraising, and internal communications, reaching 48M+ users and increasing engagement by 25%. Translated complex healthcare information into clear, compassionate, and accessible visual storytelling in collaboration with marketing, clinical, photography, and video teams. Designed campaign concepts, digital content, social graphics, event materials, publications, presentations, and signage; created reusable templates and visual systems that improved brand consistency and production efficiency. Supported award-winning video and storytelling initiatives recognized with multiple Telly Awards.

Founder / Creative Director · KRE8IV K8 Designs LLCJan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

Founded and manage a full-service creative consultancy providing brand strategy, visual identity development, website design, digital marketing, print campaigns, and creative direction for healthcare organizations, nonprofits, startups, and small businesses. Develop scalable brand systems including logos, visual identities, style guides, reusable templates, digital assets, websites, and marketing collateral. Lead client discovery, creative strategy, concept development, project planning, design production, vendor coordination, and final delivery. Build accessible, user-centered websites and communication materials that support business growth, fundraising, and brand awareness.

Senior Brand Designer / Art Director · ARC Worldwide ∙ Draft ∙ Upshot ∙ Other Agency PartnersJan 2005 – Dec 2015 · 11 yrs

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design · Bradley University2030 – 2026

Certifications and awards

IBM Design Thinking Practitioner2030 – 2026
Google UX Design Professional Certificate2030 – 2026
Additional development in WCAG Accessibility, Generative AI, Figma, Design Systems, AEO, Content Strategy and Emerging Creative Technologies2030 – 2026

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