Kirk Castro

Other Work

A gallery of identity design, illustration, lettering, and print pulled from freelance projects, brand work, and personal experiments over the years.

Role
Designer and Illustrator
Company
Freelance and Personal
Year
2010–2025
Focus
Branding, Illustration, Lettering, Print
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Not Everything Needs a Case Study

Before product design leadership, there was a lot of graphic design. Logos for small businesses, illustrations for fun, lettering studies, posters, packaging for homemade egg nog. Some of it was paid client work, some of it was practice, and some of it exists purely because making things is the whole point.

None of these pieces warrant a full writeup, but together they show the craft foundation that everything else is built on. Consider this the flat file drawer of the portfolio.

Marks and Identity

Logo and identity work spanning veterinary software, physician consulting, a falconry equipment brand, and the Kajabi mark I designed during my time there.

Identity work across a decade of freelance and in house projects, including the Kajabi mark and its brand guidelines.

Illustration and Lettering

Personal pieces in a traditional tattoo style, plus type experiments drawn for no client but myself.

Traditional tattoo style illustration and a blackletter lettering study.

Print, Packaging, and Pixels

An infographic poster on Everest, a label for a very potent batch of homemade egg nog, and a glitch portrait experiment.

Poster design, holiday packaging, and photo manipulation.

The tools change, the titles change, but the itch to make things stays the same.