Original work, multi-layered Photoshop, concepting, compositing, color grading
I’m a Storyteller. A Designer, Writer and Producer.
I’ve worked on countless, national digital and commercial projects directly with global ad agency clients such as BBDO, JWT, & Ogilvy, and Fortune 500s such as Home Depot & UPS. I have a certificate in UX/UI, a robust career in client service and production, a focus in design concepting, and a degree in English.
In a previous life, I toured as a songwriter playing stages like The Fillmore in San Francisco and House of Blues in L.A. I’ve marched down the streets of my home city of Atlanta for human & equal rights, and caught a beautiful photo of Rep. John Lewis just before his passing (bio continued under photo).
Photo by Kitty Snyder
I was born in the North but seasoned in the South. I love sweet tea, singing, empathizing, and connecting dots & people. I believe in discussing mental health, and incorporating DEI into every situation.
These journeys all relate. It’s about building bridges and bringing ideas to life.
Relevant tangent: I took this next photo on a solo trip to Rome on New Years Eve, just before the pandemic hit. I’d just had a celebratory bourbon in a little café, when I came upon this musician playing Bohemian Rhapsody on the cello. His little dog was curled like a comma on his instrument case, and it was surreal to hear this song across the ocean, on the night of 2020 eve, alone on the cobbled streets.
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Photo by Kitty Snyder
DESIGNER
WEBSITE DESIGN
My goal is to make my client’s artistry, unique talent & personality shine through their websites, based on innate design, copywriting, UX Research, UI for easy navigation, project management, and a serious commitment to your deadline.
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I also design for production decks, one-sheets, site maps, keynote presentations, social media, illustrations, etc.
PRODUCER
Kitty (Kit) on set with Director Nathan Lee, shooting a Cinnabon digital spot.
I spent years in production before pivoting to design, from commercial broadcast and digital spots, to longform and internal videos. As Executive Producer, I’ve been the initial tie between the client and the creatives for calls/meetings, booked crews, and I’ve written hundreds of bids and worked with budgets of all sizes.
I’ve also been Line Producer for studio & on-location shoots; I’ve created schedules for post production with editors, sound designers, colorists, animators, graphic artists, & creative directors. I have created e-blasts, newsletters, and social posts related to company / production communications and marketing, as well as led in-person presentations.
The goal is always, no matter what the project, to execute excellent storytelling that comes in on time and budget.
See more production work here.
COPYWRITER
I received my English degree while writing papers about Dostoevsky at 3 AM; I’d had stacks of books covering my bedside table, floor, dressers, and desks, since I was a child. I used everything as bookmarks: ribbons, plant leaves, bird feathers.
But the degree also led me to a career writing copy for hundreds of production bids, marketing e-blasts, web copy, social posts, and this “Little Book with a Big Attitude” about the technology and artists with whom I worked at the time; it won a Gold Advertising Award (Addy).
“I was once a purposeful but meandering fish with varying sea changes, as the currents carried me over time: as the daughter of a successful Fisher Price toy designer, then as a young English grad and songwriter, then as a longtime commercial and video producer, and now as a professional designer and copywriter. But in retrospect, it’s all been under the same sunlit surface: storytelling.”
- Written for Creative Circle
Gold Addy Award, for copywriting of Little Book
Photo for Creative Circle
Skills, Certificates and Programs
Bachelor of Arts Degree:
English
Certificates:
UX/UI, General Assembly
PowerPoint, Ûdemy
PowerPoint, Linkedin Learning
Skills/Experience:
Adobe Photoshop, Canva (design, edit & animation), Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote, SquareSpace, Trello, Keap (InfusionSoft), SalesForce, Bloggle, Excel
MUSICIAN
Reviews of my album “Trips to the Oddities:”
“Oddities is so intensely refined and effortlessly delivered that it transcends the [modern folk music] genre. Comparisons to Joni Mitchell or Neil Young are just, but Snyder takes the reins from theise early-70s stalwarts and drives the old folk stagecoach to new destinations. With its trips into a chilling world of lost dreams and desperate visions, Snyder embodies a cast of misguided yet hopeful characters.” - Lee Smith, Creative Loafing
“Dreamy and vulnerable” - Jeff Clark, Stomp & Stammer
“Kitty shares the same vocal style as a Paula Cole or a Shawn Colvin, managing to sound vulnerable enough to form an intimacy, while strong enough to carry the words.” - JEZEBEL Magazine
“Introspective Soundscapes.” - Bill Clifford, PASTE Magazine
iTunes & Amazon Music:
