Client Candids
Our team is lead by Ken Monnens who has enjoyed 30 very successful years in the graphic design industry. He has assembled other senior marketers and designers as well as some of the best young talent in the industry today.
Each member brings something unique to our team with backgrounds, learning and experiences amassed from many clients across a multitude of categories. By choice, we are a small team - a tightly knit group that enjoys working together.
Ken Monnens
Ken is the founding principal and Executive Creative Director, overseeing all creative work. Ken graduated with highest honors with a BS in Fine Art from UC Davis having studied with many of California's leading contemporary artists including Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Peterson and Manual Neri. He then studied design at CCAC and simultaneously began his career as a designer for Cato Johnson, a design subsidiary of Young & Rubicam. While working full-time, Ken attended evening classes and received his law degree in the spring of 1983.
In the fall of 1983, Ken founded what is now kenCREATIVE with a portfolio of clients that included The Clorox Company, Atari Home Computers and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. Ken's 30-year career in design spans all categories and industries. Ken has provided design solutions and account service to America's top companies. His design sense is strategic, brand focused and award-winning.
Erin Siverson - Account Executive
Erin joined our team three years ago after two years of client-side marketing work in the health care industry. She graduated from UC Davis in 2003 with her Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Regional Development with and emphasis in sociology.
Erin's education, experience, and keen design sense, add insight to our service-based clients like Episcopal Senior Communities, PIER 39 and Oxbow Public Market. She is our lead contact on these accounts and oversees their studio projects.
Jon Griffin - Senior Art Director
Jon has worked with Ken for close to 12 years. He brings a focused energy to branding projects that results in hard-hitting, impactful, masculine graphics.
Jon is an accomplished designer and a key contributor to our creative team. He led our packaging work for Black Diamond Brewing Company, Ironite, Image herbicides, RocketBoat and the communication design standards for Grainger Industrial Supply.
Danica Snowden - Designer
Danica is a recent addition to our studio and has already proven herself as a valuable team player. Her package design for our client's Black Diamond Winter Ale hits shelves this November 2008. In addition, she has been instrumental in helping to create many collateral pieces for our work with Shutterfly.
Emily Sklar - Designer
Like Ken and Erin, Emily is also a UC Davis graduate. She joined us in March 2008 after working as a graphic designer for the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - specifically, the de Young Museum.
Emily's contributions to our team are already evident in the market with our package design system for Juvenon's line of vitamins and supplements. And, she works closely with Erin to produce most of our advertising work for PIER 39 and Blue & Gold Fleet's RocketBoat.
Johnny Truong - Writer
Johnny joined us after two years with Engage PR - a full-service public relations agency focused on the emerging high-technologies market. At Engage, Johnny's responsibilities included establishing and maintaining media and analyst relations and producing press releases and media alerts for all of their clients.
He officially joins us as a "wordsmith," - guiding us with words and language, literature and ideas - helping us with our naming assignments, developing tag lines and writing articles. In addition, his formal education in Advertising and Communications makes him a valuable contributor to our concept development for many different clients.
Chris Pappamichiel - Studio Manager
Chris has more than twelve years experience in production and studio management. He is skilled at handling large, complex projects due to his keen organizational skills and attention to detail. Chris was instrumental in helping establish our Collateral Standards work for Kemper, Grainger, PIER 39, Koret and Club One and continues to oversee all mechanical production in our studio.
Sandy Adams - Business Manager
Sandy keeps our business and financial affairs "current" and complete. Her attention to detail is paramount and her quality efforts allow the account and design teams to stay focused on our Clients' strategic and creative solutions.