After her parents immigrated from South Africa to Canada, Kiki unknowingly began her career in design at the age of 5, creating mixed media fashion illustrations with pencil crayons and her mother’s leftover eyeshadow palettes.

Her passion for multiple design disciplines continued throughout her public school education, culminating in admission to the prestigious Toronto Metropolitan University’s Fashion Design program, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s of Applied Arts degree. The through line of her fashion design aesthetic is rooted in color blocking and graphics, so it was no surprise when she then went on to study interactive multimedia.

Kiki launched her professional career at a design and marketing agency in Toronto where she could draw on her lifelong design experience and sense of wonder to create web sites, motion graphics and online games for well known brands such as PBS kids, Mattel and Nokia.

A handful of years later, she landed in California where she continued to work her way through the ranks of in-house and agency creative teams, working today as a Creative Director for a health and wellness brand.

Because of Kiki’s sponge-like curiosity, a tireless work ethic and a desire to elevate brand experiences, she has continually freelanced as a design consultant for several small businesses and brands, under made by kiki. But Kiki didn’t stop there.

As friends, colleagues and strangers on the street continued to ask ‘where’d you get that top/dress/blazer/hat’, Kiki dusted off her training as a fashion designer to offer her professional Wardrobe Styling services for photoshoots at her day job, and as a freelance personal stylist.

When Kiki’s sister-in-law reached out for advice on how to decorate her new home, Kiki added Interior Designer to her design toolkit. 

2 decades since its inception, made by kiki is evolving into a design service agency that extends beyond branding and graphic design to offer professional interior and wardrobe styling services under the name Studio Kiki.

Our mission is to elevate brands, spaces and wardrobes as an authentic reflection of our clients’ values, energy and personalities…and to have fun doing it = )

We would love for you to follow along with us as the ink dries on our business cards, the website takes shape, and we get our socials up and running. 

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Here’s to making beautiful work together,

- With love from Studio Kiki