Kringenstudio explores how to create a visual voice for its clients that will resonate and create meaningful connections with their client communities.

about

Working in design and interactive media disciplines for over 3 decades, Maureen Kringen has applied a love of painting and a reverance for fine art to a design approach that is textural and illustrative, with a modern sensibility.

Her career began at a time when the digital medium was only beginning to become capable of displaying rich visual environments. A combination of timing and a personal interest in unusual mediums landed her in the computer gaming industry, challenged with bringing a greater level of design and beauty to the interactive platform.

As Art Director at SEGA’s Southern California division, she trained and led a growing team of artists in the development of gaming environments and characters. Her team worked to push the boundaries of art and animation within a digital medium in it’s infancy. As Group Director, she had the opportunity to research and develop projects exploring the application of artificial intelligence and neural networks and to broaden the conceptual content of the interactive experience.

With the advent of the public internet, her design focus shifted to developing website environments, again exploring how to push past inherent graphic limitations and working to bring an organic and emotional quality to what was primarily a detached digital landscape.

Whether through interactive and interface design, print design or traditional brand identity development, Maureen has worked in collaboration with her clients to develop a rich visual presence that would represent who they are, what they are about and foster emotional connections to their unique audiences.

Maureen currently devotes her time to her first love: painting. Rediscovering texture, form and color through the painted medium, she is inspired by the beauty and design in nature and the strength of the human spirit.

featured in

• Print Interaction 2000 Digital Design Annual

• Typographic Design: Form and Communication 
  Virginia Commonwealth University Textbook, Third Edition

• Wired Magazine, Best Branding, Sonoma County Woodworkers Website

• Disney Magazine, Best Game Graphics 1992

• The Society of Illustrators, New York 1985

services

Website Design + Development | Print Design | Brand Identity | Illustration | Packaging | Signage | Messaging

Working in the visual arts is essentially a journey of discovery - a search for what makes us feel something simply by looking at something.

Finding balance, getting something to look right, to “feel” right, requires surrender and a willingness to allow the work to lead and to inform. It’s a letting go of preconceptions in order to understand what lies beyond what we know, or think we know. This is both a challenging and humbling experience.

What begins as a conversation with the work itself, leads hopefully, to a connection to those who engage with it. Both the process and its result hold the potential to intrigue, to draw us closer and to make visible what is sacred within the mundane.
Ultimately, it can reclaim within us a sense of awe - connecting us to something beyond ourselves and to something that dwells deep within, simultaneously.

For me, it doesn’t get better than this.