Katherine is a graphic designer and illustrator in Blue Hill, Maine, who specializes in print design and custom projects, such as logos, one-of-a-kind maps, and books. When not drawing and designing, she works as an editor; in this role, her main client is the independent-minded journal of the financial markets, Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

Before becoming a freelancer full-time at the close of 2015, Katherine worked as an editor at various magazines in New York and Washington, D.C. At those magazines, she taught herself how to create the issues in InDesign—and this work in typography, the hierarchy of elements, and the clarity of communication led her to build her own business that incorporated her own style and, frequently, her own paintings.

Inspiration is just about everywhere, but particularly these days in the books she reads with her two young boys, chief among them the truck tomes of Richard Scarry. What a prolific hand and imaginative mind he had!

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Katherine was raised in McLean, Virginia, and has been drawing for as long as she can remember. She attended Davidson College, where she held the Pepper Visual Arts Scholarship and graduated in 2008 with degrees in both Classics (Latin, some Greek) and Studio Art. Since then she has learned how to marry her two, long-held interests in words and images in what she makes now. Design and illustration are endlessly interesting fields to work in—and rewarding, as at the end of the day, there is something to hold in your own two hands that you made. Everything begins with the pencil.