Hello! I’m Kate
she/her
>creative director
>magic maker✨
>mom :heart:
Welcome to my imperfect, hardly updated personal website.
With 17 years experience delivering award-winning creative, and currently raising a toddler….my craft goes to my clients, not my own site.
Where did it all begin? Growing up in the backstages of ballet, I kickstarted my career designing punk posters for underground theatres in Baltimore. My world was all stage lights and sketchbooks, scripts and sets, an old camera and big wonderment.
Now bringing that deep love of storytelling and magic to every creative masterpiece, leading the creative of an elite boutique agency. Designing websites with purpose, human centric brand identities, crafting user research and imagining visual experiences that drive change and inspire emotions. Brand systems built by strategy with heart and soul. Partnering with incredible clients in advocacy, climate change, social justice, public health, reproductive rights, luxury travel & more. And doing it with joy. Passionate about design for good and beautiful pixels.
Clip from a recent press interview with Lindsey Mastis after keynoting the inaugeral GNRT conference in Arlington, DC. Full interview here.
Feature article on my guest lectures at George Mason University. Read it here.
Super Skills
Leading powerhouse design teams / Human-centric brand identities / ai / ai generative art / UI+UX / Digital experiences / Visual storytelling / Strategic design thinking / Theatre campaigns / Events and experiential design / Full funnel creative / Mobile-first design / Focus groups & audience research / DEI and a11y design
Project Awards:
2024 Anthem Award Winner in Silver; for Environmental Campaign
2024 Fast Company Innovative Design Award Honoree
2023 Design Rush’s Best Website of September
2023 Webby Award Honoree
2023 Anthem Award Winner in Silver; for Social Justice Design
2018 Ace Metrics #1 Most Inspiring TV Ad
As seen in:
2025 Special Exhibit Artist at Rhodes House, Oxford
2025 Guest Lecturer @ George Mason University; Costello School of Business,
2025 Keynote speaker at the inaugural GNRT.AI conference,
2025 DMAW Educational Foundation Professors Institute solo speaker,
2024 Special Exhibit Digital Artist at the National Portrait Gallery,
CES 2024 room co-host of top 5 featured panel the “Ai is the 5th Industrial revolution”,
2024 Voice&Ai Conference panelist speaker,
2022-2024 Digital Strategy Summit solo speaker annually,
Plus: Adweek, Vibe.com, AgencySpy, BizWomen, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, What’s Up Weddings
Other Accolades
Created first ever-globally translated logo in luxury travel,
Developed origin story, branding and UI for the first personality-based AI in EDU,
Jack Welch Certificate of Executive Leadership,
UX Certificate from General Assembly,
@ DDB during it’s “Agency of the Decade” reign
2025, Nominated for Towson University’s “Most Distinguished Alumni” award
A little client name dropping:
Youtube/Google, Marriott International, Rails to Trails Conservancy, Schmidt Science Fellowship, me too. Movement, World Resource Institute + Bezos Earth Fund, RWJF Health Policy Fellowship, National Alliance for Care at Home, National Institute for Reproductive Health, Opportunity Agenda, 1880, while previously Queen Latifah, McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Wayfair
…just to name a few.
kategazzillo@gmail.com
kate@weareoutright.com