Kristine is a design leader with 10 years of experience across brand, product, and content.
Driven by curiosity, craft, and cross-collaboration.
CREATIVE DIRECTION
Creative Strategy
DESIGN SYSTEMS
MENTORSHIP
LEADERSHIP
CONTENT DESIGN
BRAND DESIGN
UX/UI DESIGN
PRODUCT DESIGN
SOCIAL
PHOTO + VIDEO DIRECTION
MOTION DESIGN
VISUAL DESIGN
PRINT DESIGN
FIGMA
ADOBE SUITE
GENERATIVE AI
About

I'm a self-taught designer, coder, storyteller, and leader. Every role I've held has been about shaping ideas and shipping them — from building design teams and navigating shifts in audience behavior to mentoring designers and driving their professional growth. I lead as a player-coach, equally at home setting direction and sitting in the work with my team.
I joined Forbes as the company's first interactive designer. What came after was built from scratch.
Over the past decade, I've helped scale the Forbes Content & Design Studio from its founding into a multidisciplinary team producing work for over 250 clients, including Google, Cartier, Intel, Adobe, Microsoft, and TikTok. Today, as VP of Multiplatform Content Design, I lead design for branded content and new editorial initiatives, most recently Forbes Research and Forbes Creator.
I've operated across the full range, from startup environments where I was the only product designer, end-to-end, to leading a multidisciplinary design team inside a major media brand. That range taught me how to partner across Design, Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Editorial, and how to build creative teams where craft, curiosity, and clarity are the standard.
Talks
How to Keep a Great Branded Content Idea Alive
Panelist, Native Advertising Institute Branded Content Days, 2025
New York, NY
Differentiating & Elevating Brands Through Technology & Masterful Storytelling
Moderator, Forbes High Net Worth Luxury Marketing Breakfast, 2024
BOLD conversations: The Douglass Career Conference
Panelist, Rutgers University, 2017
Awards
Significant Women In Branded Content
Native Advertising Institute, 2025 & 2026
Studio of the Year
Bronze, Native Advertising Institute, 2025
Digital Team of the Year
Folio’s Eddie & Ozzie Awards, 2022
Alongside awards for individual campaigns spanning Webby nominations to Financial Communications Society's Portfolio Awards.
Obsessions
Issey Miyake Pleats Please
I'm working on building my secondhand capsule collection
Tabis
9 tabis — across Margiela's, air rifts, air rift x skims, tabi footwear — and counting.
Louise Bourgeois
Seeing every spider sculpture is on my bucket list. 3 down!
Luis Barragán
I'm a big fan of architecture and Barragán's philosophy steeped in contrasts and Catholicism
Biographies + Non-Fiction
Some favorites include: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley & Malcolm X, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Novelist As A Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Currently Reading: Speculative Everything by Dunne & Raby
Blueberry & Toast