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

Available for Projects

Available for Projects

© Katie Schwendeman Sakowski 2026

© Katie Schwendeman Sakowski 2026

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