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

bio

I’ve worked in design and interactive media disciplines for over 3 decades. My life long 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 only beginning to become capable of displaying rich visual environments. A combination of timing and a personal interest in unusual mediums landed me in the computer gaming industry, challenged with bringing design and beauty to the 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 for home systems. We worked to push the boundaries of digital art and animation within a medium in it’s infancy. As Group Director, I had the opportunity to research and develop projects exploring design, artificial intelligence and neural networks and their 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 inherent graphic limitations and working to bring an organic and emotional quality to what was then, primarily, a detached digital landscape.

Whether through digital and web design, brand identity development or print design applications, I’ve worked in collaboration with my clients to develop a visual presence that would 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 
  Virginia Commonwealth University Textbook, Third Edition

• Wired Magazine, Best Branding, Sonoma County Woodworkers Website

• Disney Magazine, Best Game Graphics

• The Society of Illustrators, New York

services

Brand Identity | Print | Digital + Website | Illustration | Packaging | Signage | Messaging

I love looking at things - and creating things to look at. Finding balance, getting something to look right, to “feel” right is a process that requires surrender and a willingness to allow the work to lead and to inform. A letting go of preconceptions in order to understand what lies beyond what we know, or think we know, is also necessary. This is both challenging and humbling.

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

What begins as a conversation with the work itself, leads hopefully to a connection to those who engage with it moving forward. At its best, both the process and its result hold the potential to intrigue us, 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.