Katie Freathy is a traditionally educated graphic designer — with significant experience across branding, print and digital design — currently living and working in London.
Experience
Permanent
MerchantCantos
Senior Digital Designer
London
November 2013 – January 2015
MetaDesign
Designer/Lead Designer
San Francisco
February 2009 – February 2012
Method
Visual Designer
San Francisco
July – December 2008
Education & training
BFA Graphic Design
Academy of Art University, San Francisco
Katie obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design in 2008.
Front End Web Development
General Assembly, London
Katie completed General Assembly’s FEWD course in January 2014. Studies in web development are on-going and she has been coding in her free time since.
html, css and javascript/jquery
php (wordpress backend)
Additional information
Academy of Art University
In addition to working as a designer, Katie is also a design educator for the Academy of Art University San Francisco’s online graphic design department.
She has taught ‘Nature of Interaction’ for 7 consecutive semesters.
Katie documents digital design resources for herself and shares them in the Design Tools section of this website (hoping her students find and use them).
Forage Press
In collaboration with founder (and husband) Tomi Lahdesmaki, Katie has played a supporting design role to Forage Press. Forage Press launched as an experiment in passion — bringing audio and visual creativity together.
As a behind the scenes manager of Forage Press Katie has supported with copywriting, print and digital design, as well as front end development for various online materials.
Contact
To request work samples or to find out more information please send an email to katie.freathy@gmail.com
katiefreathy.com is currently in development.