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

My chihuahuas

Always open to a conversation about collaboration, mentorship, or anything you're obsessing over. Say hi over email or connect with me on LinkedIn!