Kyle Hermans: Principal, Synectics
“Ambitious, creative and a natural networker. Kate has her talented hands in many opportunities, which reflected in her ability to create innovative designs for multiple industries and platforms. Her quest to analyze, break apart and reinvent design and creativity manifests in her theories, philosophies and design values. Always nudging the boundaries of what could be possible, Kate is a great asset to an organization that is willing to offer creative freedom and take the challenge to be pushed to new spaces.”
Richard Gerver: Speaker / Founder, IC-ED
Kate is passionate about her work and her desire to help and support others. She is highly creative and totally professional. Her energy is infectious, leading to dynamic partnerships and collaboration. Is she great to work with? Absolutely. Would I work with her again? Without hesitation!
Derek Stewart: Design Director, Metalli Lindberg
“Kate is: dedicated to THE cause as much as anybody I know, enthusiatic, determined, passionate, generous, very well-informed, serious, often very busy, knows nearly everybody, and is a lot of fun. If there’s anything, an event, enterprise or whatever, where the words ’social’ and ‘design’ are brought together she’s (nearly) always there be it as a collaborator, an observer or both! I think OUR future needs more people like her, so she’s definitely one to keep an eye on, then again, if what YOU do is ‘helping THE cause’ the chances are she may already have her eye on you.”
Jill Fehrenbacher: Founder, Inhabitat.com
“Kate is super-motivated, full of creative energy and brings a real passion and creative flair to everything that she does. Her creativity and leadership skills have been a real asset to Inhabitat – whether finding amazing stories to write up for the site, organizing a team of UK editors to blow out a design conference or putting together a great website in a day, Kate’s style and dedication will be an asset to any organization she works with.”
Daniel Siden: Founding Director, Haberdasherylondon
“Kate is an enabler within the design industry, with her finger on the pulse of creative community. With a critical, considered and dynamic understanding of issues, trends and their global impact, Kate is an up and coming force in design thinking.”
Tessy Britton: Founding Director, Thriving.org
“Kate is a bubbly, excitable and wonderful person to work with. I had so much fun working with Kate on the branding and website for Thriving, because of the person she is and the seemingly never ending flow of creative ideas, but also because of her passion for education and creativity. This shared passion and sense of joint purpose has made working together very exciting. There were days when my heart literally skipped a beat as I opened a new design that Kate sent.”
Ian Crawford: Chapter Head, Project H Design
“Kate is one of those people you meet briefly and then all of a sudden she is helping in all sorts of ways that you hadn’t even thought of and making huge strides on your behalf without ever expecting much in return. Whether it’s getting support for a project, media attention or simply her unbound enthusiasm for anything with a worthwhile aim and the ability to make sure it happens.”
Aisha Sheikh: Director, Liminal Creative Bloc
“Let’s acknowledge it. Kate is charismatically consequential. Kate is the most selfless designer, writer, networker I have met. Energy, flow and context is what a creative needs. Through writing, speaking and design, Kate has helped me understand why I latch on to philosophy and context: it is a necessity for a creative mind. What has Kate Andrews done for YOU lately?”
Marissa Feinberg: Felissimo / Design21
“Kate Andrews is a significant voice of DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, serving as tremendous inspiration to our online community! We’re lucky to have her so active in our social design world. She’s clearly full of passion and doing great things, on and offline. Keep up the strong work, Kate!
Gustavo Machado: Design Educator
“With over 250 posts under her belt, Kate has been by far the most active Design21’s writer. Her passion and commitment certainly represents an extraordinary contribution to social and sustainable design disciplines.”
Nick Mallett: Synectics
“Kate is a highly skilled and passionate designer with an enormous amount of energy and enthusiasm for her profession. Whilst working at Synectics, Kate delivered high quality design work for my project and showed great interest in the field of innovation consultancy.”
Miguel Rodriguez-Batista: Innovation Partner, Altran
“Kate is a design thinker; understanding the design process and researching deeply into the concepts that articulate a design response.”
