Hey! I’m Kelsey Lesko. A senior creative living, working, and making in San Francisco, California.

I approach design as a shared experience. We find the problem we’re trying to solve for and go on the adventure of discovering the solution together. We work hard, pulling at the underlying assumptions that are either holding us up, or holding us back, listening to the community we serve and ourselves in search of an answer that is practical and beautiful.

When I’m not designing you’ll likely find me reupholstering furniture, painting, printing, traveling, quilting, cooking, and exploring.

(I might have too many hobbies, please take one.)

Experience

Currently — ACD at Kettle
2017-2022 — Freelance Sr. Designer & Art Director
2016-2017 — Sr. Designer at Media Cause
2014-2016 — Designer at Celery Design
2013-2014 — Freelance Designer
2011- 2013 — Designer at Future Partners

Clients

Apple
IDEO.org
Thorn
Take Shape Studio
Jebra
ToneStone
Futures Without Violence
Year Up
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Keurig Green Mountain Company
Brown-Forman
Eli Lilly and Company
The International Labor Right Forum
Legacy Foundation, truth®campaign
Fuse Corps
SIEMENS
Sodastream
Not For Sale
REBBL

Published Works

2019 — TED, Presentation design for the The Audacious Project Awards for Thorn
2013 — Rockport Publishers, Best Brochures Design 12
2012 — FastCompany.com
2012 — FastCompany, February printed issue

Volunteering

2016-2020 — Design mentor for the men incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison that are enrolled in The Last Mile, the first computer coding program in a US prison.

Education

2011 — BFA Graphic Design & Printmaking minor, SCAD

Blue bitmap image of Kelsey Lesko in preschool. She is standing by a brick wall wearing a spectacular ensemble of matching floral pants and top, white sneakers, and lunchbox. Her hair is a bowl cut mullet combo.

Good design gives me goosebumps.

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