Kirsten K
Senior Visual Information And Communication Designer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirsten K is a senior visual information and communication designer with 11 years of experience translating complex technical and academic content into clear, engaging visualizations and brand systems. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, she leads communication design at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute while running Lamppost Creative, a boutique studio serving small businesses and nonprofits. Her work blends rigorous data visualization skills from an MPS in Information Visualization (MICA) with hands-on project leadership—planning scope, budgets, and iterative client collaboration. At STROBE she created brand standards and data management workflows that improved audience reach and analytic access, showing she designs for both aesthetics and operational efficiency. Comfortable managing large publications, websites, and multidisciplinary teams, she excels at making technical stories accessible without sacrificing nuance. Colleagues rely on her rare combination of institutional experience and entrepreneurial practice to deliver polished, impactful communication solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Masters of Professional Studies, Masters of Professional Studies at The Maryland Institute College of ArtBachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Gordon CollegeLos Angles Film Studies Center
Github Skills (11)
css10
svg9
web-application7
static-site-generation7
static-site6
gravityforms3
static-site-generator2
docker-container2
wordpress1
wordpress-plugin1
salesforce1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
umd-mith/mithpress
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
wordpresswordpress-theme
umd-mith/mith-static
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
A static web application developed for the MITH website
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 2 PRs in 8 months
web-applicationstatic-site-generationstatic-site-generatorstatic-site
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