Digital illustration of a woman, Kathleen Kowal, with long brown hair, glasses, and red lipstick, smiling against a green background.

Welcome.

My name is Kathleen and I’m a graphic designer, illustrator, and painter based in San Francisco, California. I have been a full-time freelancer since 2014 and have worked on a myriad of projects, with a variety of clients, across many industries.

I’m open to contract projects or commissions.

When I’m not doing client work, I am writing and illustrating children’s books, creating new surface pattern designs, dreaming up a new infographic, or mustering up the courage to make a mess and work on a landscape painting.

graphic design

An art deco-style chart titled '25 Classic Cocktails' with illustrations of cocktail recipes, each with ingredients and methods. The chart includes sections for garnish, rim, and method symbols, with color-coded ingredients and decorative borders.

illustration

The illustration depicts the exterior of a Japanese restaurant with silhouettes of people inside eating ramen. The restaurant has Japanese characters on a green sign above the door and is situated on a city street on a rainy day.

painting

A colorful painting of a quiet street in the Outer Richmond of San Francisco with utility poles and wires, along with a distant Golden Gate bridge and Marin Headland mountains under a partly cloudy sky.