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Kringen | media explores how to create a visual voice for its clients that will resonate and create meaningful connections with their own communities.

As principal, I’ve worked in design and interactive media disciplines for over 3 decades. My interest in painting and fine art informs an approach to design that is illustrative and textural, with a modern sensibility.

My career began at a time when the digital medium was beginning to become capable of displaying rich visual environments. A combination of timing and an interest in unusual mediums, landed me in the gaming industry, challenged with bringing design and beauty to a new interactive platform.

Art Directing at SEGA’s Southern California division, I trained and led a growing team of artists in the development of gaming environments and worked to push the boundaries of animation within a digital medium in it’s infancy.. Later, as Group Director, I had the opportunity to research and develop projects exploring the relationship between design and artificial intelligence and its application to the interactive experience. With the advent of the public internet, my design focus shifted to developing website environments, exploring how to push past the early limitations of this new medium and working to bring an organic and emotional quality to what is often a logical and detached digital landscape.. Together with traditional design, brand identity development and design for print, I work in collaboration with my clients to develop a visual presence that will represent who they are, what they are about and foster emotional connections to their unique audiences.

~ Maureen Kringen

featured in

Print Magazine
Typographic Design: Form and Communication
Third Edition
The Society of Illustrators, New York 1982
Wired Magazine, Best Branding Review 1998
Disney Magazine, Best Game Graphics 1993

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I love working with color, line, composition and texture, especially texture. Finding balance, getting something to look right - to “feel” right, begins as a conversation between artist and the work, and ends as a connection to viewer.

It is essentially a journey of discovery - a search for what can make us feel something simply by looking at something.

This requires surrender and a willingness to allow the work to lead and inform, which is both a challenge and an invitation. It’s a humbling exploration that has the potential to reveal what lies beyond what we know, or think we know - to make visible what is scared within the mundane,

At its best, both the process and its result hold the power to draw us closer - perhaps to reclaim within us a sense of awe, connecting us to something beyond ourselves and to something that dwells deep within - simultaneously.