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Maureen Kringen is an artist and designer and principal of kringen|media. She received her BA from Art Center of Design and has worked in design and interactive media disciplines for over 3 decades.
Working on client projects including brand identity, website design + development, print media, packaging and apparel, she has developed and explored how to create for her clients a visual voice that resonates and creates meaningful connections to their communities. .
The websites among her work encompass both the custom designed ‘hand-coded’ sites from a time when there were only a couple of browsers and a few platforms to view them on, .as well as the new, customize-able templated sites that prevail today.
Regardless of medium, her work strives to create a visual landscape that will reach beyond the screen and connect with something deeper.
Featured in:
Print Magazine,
The School of the Arts Virginia Commonwealth University design textbook,
The Society of Illustrators, New York
and honored with "best game graphics" Disney Magazine
and "best branding" Wired Magazine. .
I love design, art beauty - using composition, color and texture to create harmony and to aesthetically please. Although design also takes into consideration the complex needs of a client, a product and the end user, it has always been the aesthetics that I’ve leaned toward. Capturing the essence of something, whether message, object or emotion and presenting it in a way that makes us feel something - that’s what resonates for me.
When the advent of digital media gave birth to computer gaming, interactive design, and eventually website design, I found myself most interested in translating the aesthetics and emotional power of design to an inherently logical, sometimes cold and often detached digital landscape.
Whatever the medium, I was interested in reminding us that we are more than our technology, in making us feel and in connecting us beyond words.
Design. Art. Beauty. These inspire, they motivate. They carry the potential to reach a part of us that is sacred - what better goal?
Enjoy the work.
Maureen Kringen