Katie Blank

Bio

work

  • 2011

    For my senior project I created an advertising campaign for Washington State Parks, and organization I grew up with--being the daughter of a ranger. Washington State Parks have struggled with the recent economic downturn, with the lack of funding resulting in a risk of park closures.

    I have developed a possible advertising campaign and website that targets younger urbanites. Young people are the next generation that will need to support parks, yet they are often distracted by media....

  • 2011

    The Blue Line Campaign was a co-creation project done in conjunction with Vancouver Coastal Health, with a team consisting of Tia Blunden, Caitrin Wootton, and myself. The objective of our project was to improve hospital hand hygiene, and therefore decrease the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections.

    Existing efforts to enforce hand hygiene were confusing and inconsistent throughout the facilities. Our campaign sought to keep language and aesthetic simple, but bold enough...

  • 2011

    Masculine & Feminine is a short kinetic type video which examines the relationship between the appearance and the gendered bias of a typeface. This video was submitted as part of the "Pop-Up Museum" in Peter Cocking's Advanced Typography course.

    Audio was recorded in Adobe Audition. Video composition was completed in Adobe After Effects CS5.5.