With an extensive career preceding and paralleling the emergence of digital design, Kate Pabst is uncannily comfortable in the highly disruptive space surrounding the new and unfamiliar. Relying on a combination of courage, leadership, curiosity, and creative connectivity, Pabst bridges the realms of digital & analog, print & interactive, fine art & commercial graphic design.

In her presentation, Pabst will share her personal experience on being among the first to usher design into the digital era and offer thoughts on inspiration and innovation born in the realm of radical disruption. Sharing lessons learned from experience in dauntingly innovative situations, Pabst will share thoughts on innovation, inspiration and constantly raging against career limitations. This lecture is ideal for those seeking inspiration in the face of deadlines. Question and answer period to follow.

Having designed some of the first and second iterations of major websites for global leaders like Hanes and Hormel, Pabst understands the excitement of forming creative connections in new and novel spaces. An artist at heart, Pabst jumps mediums with practiced ease and is currently working for MRM Worldwide and velvetpeel, while also pursuing personal artistic interests.