Kristin L Rogers Brown

Kristin Rogers Brown (KRB) is a creative director and designer who joined the PNCA faculty as Department Chair of Graphic Design in Fall, 2018. She has worked in a wide variety of creative studio environments, from small studio to corporate in-house design to publishing, and uses her background as an award-winning art director to design meaningful experiences, publications, and brand strategies across media. Her work with nonprofits and values-driven organizations proves that thoughtful design drives engagement, builds community, and makes a difference in people's lives.

As art director for Bitch Media (2010-2018), she redesigned both the website and the magazine _Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture_, and worked with emerging illustrators and designers from all over the world to highlight content analyzing media and pop culture through a feminist lens. Though her first love in design is print, she loves finding the right media for the message, whether it’s brand development, packaging, environment, or web design.

As an educator, KRB draws from her vision as a creative director to teach advanced-level design and illustration courses that develop students' portfolios and processes to make the transition from student life to working pro, alongside a department faculty with varied and vibrant creative practice and deep connections in the design community.

KRB is particularly interested in building community through design, and clients to whom values matter. From 2018-2021, she served on the board of Visible, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing equitable access to the work of the creative industry. She worked to help launch Design Week Portland in 2012, as part of the advisory board and by co-organizing a city-wide opening party and regional publication showcase. She served on the board of AIGA Portland from 2004 to 2011, as membership chair and then vice president. She has worked with design initiatives for social change and sustainability for a variety of clients (including a long-time stint as creative director for the award-winning Bear Deluxe magazine), and has been instrumental in working with AIGA Portland’s Women Lead initiative, the Design for Good initiative, the Living Principles framework for sustainable design, and Worldstudio’s Urban Forest Project. Her work has been featured in the Print Regional Design Annual, New York Times, Utne, and AIGA‘s Center for Cross-Cultural Design.