Katrin Horstkemper

UI Designer | Senior Art Director

Berlin, Germany

Work Experience

Bruce B.

Junior Art Director

At Bruce B., based in Stuttgart, I worked for clients like Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Michelin, as well as international medium-sized businesses. My main project was attending a global product launch, concering development of corporate design, web design (realized in 7 languages), packaging, illustration of an instruction manual, photoshooting as well as video shoot.
September 2010 - August 2011 Stuttgart, Germany

Kleiner Und Bold

Junior Designer

Working for clients like MAPA (BillyBoy, Fromms, B2), Cornelsen (one of the biggest german publishers for school books) and Clients in renewable Energy sector
September 2011 - February 2012 Berlin, Germany

Minigram – Studio Für Markendesign

Senior Designer | Creative Lead

· Working with international clients (Triumpf, Gore, Sandoz)

· The redesign underlines the visual consistency of the brands within the Gore Fabrics Division on all levels while keeping the globally known key assets GORE®-TEX® and GORE®-WINDSTOPPER® in terms of their leading market position at the same time. Therefore the consumer could finally recognize all family members, which benefits from the two popular ones.

Sample:
1) A styleguide representing the simplified brand architecture and reduced design elements on all touchpoints enables other agencies, partner etc. to integrate Gore Fabrics brands correctly and strengthen their awareness

2) All brands of Gore Fabrics Division are in line with using created Gore Headline font for headlines and a harmonious Color range to individualized each of the brands.

3) Design systems of using same heights for badges that needs to be used from agencies/productioners all over, simplified working with CD and reduced sources of errors and prevents from lacking ledgibility.
April 2012 - September 2016 Germany

Medneo GmbH

Senior Art Director

· Defining the visual basement and appearance of medneo as professional brand: through defining standards, processes were simplified which saves company and their employees from wasting time and money.

Sample:
1) With access to letters and presentation templates, employees complete their work faster and retain the brand guidelines

2) Signages of diagnostic centers can be planned and commissioned by anyone, as it is based on modular design system

3) Patients recognize the medical staff based on corporate fashion and therefore experience a professional examination environment
October 2016 - September 2020 Germany

Freelancer

Senior Art Director/Creative Lead

May 2015 -

Education

University Of Applied Sciences Dortmund

Diploma

study of communication design, specialization graphic design
mainly focued on print design, like corporate design, editorial and typography. Another passion is copywriting.
September 2005 - February 2010 Dortmund, Germany

CareerFoundry

Certified UI Designer

January 2021 - September 2021 Germany

Languages

Spanish (Conversational),
English (Fluent),
German (Native),

Skills

Acrobat Professional, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Flinto, InVision, Sketch, Usabilityhub,