Select Work
for Exhibition Graphic Designer Position at OMSI
About Me
I'm Karli, an Oregon-based designer and illustrator with experience spanning product design, agency work, and large-scale mural projects. I enjoy creating visual systems that translate across brands, products, and physical spaces, helping ideas take shape in ways that are engaging, intuitive, and memorable.
Whether I'm designing graphics for a wall, a public health campaign, or a future exhibit experience, I'm drawn to work that combines storytelling, design, and thoughtful organization of information. I especially enjoy projects that inspire curiosity, encourage exploration, and create meaningful connections between people and the world around them.
During my five years at Coates Kokes, a Portland-based strategic communications and branding agency, I worked on a wide range of projects for nonprofits, public agencies, and mission-driven organizations. Collaborating with strategists, writers, and fellow designers, I helped create visual solutions that informed, inspired, and engaged a wide-range of audiences. This fast-paced environment strengthened my ability to prioritize, adapt quickly, and deliver thoughtful and quality design solutions across diverse projects.
The following projects represent selected work that showcases my experience with brand systems, storytelling, information design, illustration, campaign development, and real life visual applications.
Selected Agency Work
Design Work at Coates Kokes
Friends
Fight Fentanyl
Yamhill Public Heath Campaign
End HIV
Oregon
Branding, Web Design, Campaigns
Oregon Department
of Agriculture
Brand Refresh
Selected Environmental Graphics & Murals
Design Work as a Freelance Designer & Muralist
My freelance mural work builds on my interest in designing graphics that live in physical spaces and shape how people experience their environment. Each project begins with an understanding of place, audience and story, then develops into large-scale visual systems that communicate ideas across our shared spaces.
These projects have strengthened my ability to design for scale, visibility, and spatial context while balancing narrative, composition, and wayfinding considerations so that imagery can be experienced both from a distance and up close. In many cases, the work involves translating concepts into accessible visual stories for public audiences, collaborating with clients and communities, and adapting designs to real-world surfaces, constraints, and installation conditions.
This section includes a few selected mural projects that reflect that process and show how I approach design in physical environments.
Abiqua School Mural
A bold imagining of a school’s HEART, or core values of Honor, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork.
The Waterfall Passage
at Lake Oswego Town Square
A site-specific mural designed to transform a fountain and stairway into an immersive landscape
Visibility & Wayfinding Sign
for Union Gospel Mission Thrift Store
Environmental graphic solution designed to address low street visibility and guide visitors to a recessed retail entrance
Product Line Design
& Trade Show Presentation
Design Work at American Crafts
At American Crafts, I worked on illustrated product lines for craft and stationery collections, developing cohesive visual systems across patterns, products, and supporting assets. While illustration was a major part of the work, a key responsibility was ensuring each collection functioned as a unified system across multiple formats and applications.
This included preparing artwork and product files for production and translating the collections into large-scale trade show presentations, where the work needed to be clear, visually engaging, and immediately understandable in a fast-paced, competitive environment. This experience strengthened my ability to think in terms of visual hierarchy, consistency across touchpoints, and how design communicates at both product and environmental scale.
Product Line Design
& Trade Show Presentation
Designing Cohesive Visual Systems for Product & Display
Thank you for reviewing my work
This selection of work was curated to highlight my experience most relevant to exhibition and environmental graphic design, including visual storytelling, information organization, wayfinding, large-scale graphics, and designing for public audiences.