Creative Director & Designer
KATIE SCHWENDEMAN SAKOWSKI

A Creative Director,
design leader, and
brand & digital maker
based in columbus, oh.
SimpsonScarborough
Agency Brand
With almost 10 years of creative services in the books, SimpsonScarborough needed a brand refresh that matched their attitude. Simply put, they outthink, outwork, and outplay the higher ed advertising industry.
Services
Design Leadership
Brand Look & Feel
Design Activation
Website Design
SimpsonScarborough
Agency Brand
With almost 10 years of creative services in the books, SimpsonScarborough needed a brand refresh that matched their attitude. Simply put, they outthink, outwork, and outplay the higher ed advertising industry.
Services
Design Leadership
Brand Look & Feel
Design Activation
Website Design
SimpsonScarborough
Agency Brand
With almost 10 years of creative services in the books, SimpsonScarborough needed a brand refresh that matched their attitude. Simply put, they outthink, outwork, and outplay the higher ed advertising industry.
Services
Design Leadership
Brand Look & Feel
Design Activation
Website Design
CU Boulder
Exhibit Design
To celebrate a 150 year legacy of innovation and sustainability backdropped by the gorgeous Colorado landscape, we partnered with Boulder’s on campus Museum of Natural History to produce an experience to take visitors through that story.
Services
Design Leadership
Exhibit Narrative & Flow
Exhibit Look & Feel
Production Design
CU Boulder
Exhibit Design
To celebrate a 150 year legacy of innovation and sustainability backdropped by the gorgeous Colorado landscape, we partnered with Boulder’s on campus Museum of Natural History to produce an experience to take visitors through that story.
Services
Design Leadership
Exhibit Narrative & Flow
Exhibit Look & Feel
Production Design
CU Boulder
Exhibit Design
To celebrate a 150 year legacy of innovation and sustainability backdropped by the gorgeous Colorado landscape, we partnered with Boulder’s on campus Museum of Natural History to produce an experience to take visitors through that story.
Services
Design Leadership
Exhibit Narrative & Flow
Exhibit Look & Feel
Production Design
Bryn Mawr
Private College Brand
Merit, EduAD 2024
What do you get when you combine a brand with 200 years of rich, quirky history and a creative team that sometimes digs in to the archives a little too deep? Their favorite project of 2024.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Production Design
Bryn Mawr
Private College Brand
Merit, EduAD 2024
What do you get when you combine a brand with 200 years of rich, quirky history and a creative team that sometimes digs in to the archives a little too deep? Their favorite project of 2024.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Production Design
Bryn Mawr
Private College Brand
Merit, EduAD 2024
What do you get when you combine a brand with 200 years of rich, quirky history and a creative team that sometimes digs in to the archives a little too deep? Their favorite project of 2024.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Production Design
Idyll Reserve
Hospitality Brand
An idyllic woods escape created by designers for the designers at heart — folks who are going to notice things like the matchbooks, soap dispensers, and kerning.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Strategy
Brand Look & Feel
Idyll Reserve
Hospitality Brand
An idyllic woods escape created by designers for the designers at heart — folks who are going to notice things like the matchbooks, soap dispensers, and kerning.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Strategy
Brand Look & Feel
Idyll Reserve
Hospitality Brand
An idyllic woods escape created by designers for the designers at heart — folks who are going to notice things like the matchbooks, soap dispensers, and kerning.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Strategy
Brand Look & Feel
SimpScar Springs
Event Brand
You remember the thick of the pandemic? I bet you could have used a taste of tropical sunshine during the agency end-of-year celebration too.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Event Swag
SimpScar Springs
Event Brand
You remember the thick of the pandemic? I bet you could have used a taste of tropical sunshine during the agency end-of-year celebration too.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Event Swag
SimpScar Springs
Event Brand
You remember the thick of the pandemic? I bet you could have used a taste of tropical sunshine during the agency end-of-year celebration too.
Services
Identity Design
Brand Look & Feel
Event Swag
Baylor
Private University Campaign
Gold, EDM Awards 2024
When we were told we couldn’t make the whole brand campaign about their on-campus bear cubs, Indy and Belle, centering the stories and deeds of Baylor heroes around the Sermon on the Mount did feel like the next best thing.
Services
Creative Direction
Campaign Look & Feel
Video Production
Production Design
Baylor
Private University Campaign
Gold, EDM Awards 2024
When we were told we couldn’t make the whole brand campaign about their on-campus bear cubs, Indy and Belle, centering the stories and deeds of Baylor heroes around the Sermon on the Mount did feel like the next best thing.
Services
Creative Direction
Campaign Look & Feel
Video Production
Production Design
Baylor
Private University Campaign
Gold, EDM Awards 2024
When we were told we couldn’t make the whole brand campaign about their on-campus bear cubs, Indy and Belle, centering the stories and deeds of Baylor heroes around the Sermon on the Mount did feel like the next best thing.
Services
Creative Direction
Campaign Look & Feel
Video Production
Production Design
CoLab
Product Brand
After a few years, attendees of SimpsonScarborough's in-person CMOLab were craving more connection points. In comes CoLab — where the CMOs of the higher ed community gather round the virtual water cooler for off the record conversations.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
UI Design
Brand Strategy
CoLab
Product Brand
After a few years, attendees of SimpsonScarborough's in-person CMOLab were craving more connection points. In comes CoLab — where the CMOs of the higher ed community gather round the virtual water cooler for off the record conversations.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
UI Design
Brand Strategy
CoLab
Product Brand
After a few years, attendees of SimpsonScarborough's in-person CMOLab were craving more connection points. In comes CoLab — where the CMOs of the higher ed community gather round the virtual water cooler for off the record conversations.
Services
Creative Direction
Identity Design
UI Design
Brand Strategy































































