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January 16, 2026

As we head into the weekend, we wanted to share a quick note that KTD Creative will be closed on Monday, January 19, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We’ll be back and happy to reconnect when we resume regular business hours on Tuesday, January 20.

Martin Luther King Jr. illustration.

January 14, 2026

Check out our latest eNewsletter!

As we step into 2026, the marketing landscape is evolving at lightning speed. From AI-powered experiences to purpose-driven connections, smart brands are finding new ways to connect more deeply.

Inside: the Top 5 Marketing Trends for 2026 shaping how organizations connect, convert, and build lasting loyalty.

Bright colors that have Top 2026 Marketing Trends.

 

 

December 27, 2025 🎉 🎂 🥳 🎈

In January 2026, KTD Creative turns 21!

21 years in. Just getting started. As the year winds down, we’re pausing to celebrate—and to look ahead. 🖍️🧠 💡 ✨

Birthday celebration with red and whiter candles.

 

 

December 17, 2025

🎁🎄 Happy Holidays from KTD Creative!

Thank you for trusting us with your stories and ideas this year. We can’t wait to create more meaningful, inspired work together in the New Year! Check out our last newsletter of the year!

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November 5, 2025

 

TikTok has over a billion active users, and they spend a lot of time on the app. It’s one of the best platforms for reaching Gen Z and Millennials, but it’s rapidly growing across all age groups.

 
KTD Creative’s TikTok page is live! Check us out! https://www.tiktok.com/@ktd.creative

 

October 8, 2025

Enjoy more new reels of our work we did for ICMS!

 

October 8, 2025

Enjoy more new reels of our work for World Music Collective!

 

October 8, 2025

Enjoy more new reels of our work for Dance Place!

 

October 4, 2025

Enjoy new reels of our work!

 

October 4, 2025

Enjoy more new reels of our work!

 

 

September 15, 2025

Final Stretch: Let’s Make Q4 Count!

Check out our latest eNewsletter

A desert scene with yellow sand and a camel caravan.

September 4, 2025

It’s a wrap! The new CD design is complete for a DC-based ensemble, the World Music Collective. While the WMC as a group hasn’t been nominated for a Grammy, several of its members have received individual Grammy nominations and other notable accolades. Their first recording, The Salon Sessions, received a first-round Grammy nomination and was selected as a semi-finalist for the American Prize in Chamber Music.

 

 

 

Dancers in various positions of different genders and ethnic backgrounds.

September 1, 2025

Another one in the books! We love partnering with arts institutions across the DMV to bring their season programs to life.

 

 

 

Happy Labor Day greeting, with an illustration of a red, white and blue banner wrapped around a wrench and hammer.

August 27, 2025

KTD Creative will be closed on Monday, September 1, in observance of Labor Day. We’ll be back at our desks (and inboxes) on Tuesday, September 2, refreshed and ready to create!

Check out our new newsletter!
KTD Creative newsletter!

 

 

July 28, 2025

✨ Big welcome to Grant Heinicke, our amazing Fall 2025 intern from the University of Maryland! 🐢💼 We’re so happy to have you on the KTD Creative team! 🙌

 

 

July 26, 2025

🎉Spotlight: CDT 2024 Annual Report

KTD Creative is proud to share that we just wrapped up the 2024 Annual Report for the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)—our third consecutive year designing this vital publication.

CDT is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age. Since 1994, they’ve been a trusted advocate for digital rights, shaping technology policy, governance, and design with a focus on equity and democratic values.

We’re honored to support their mission through thoughtful, accessible design that helps communicate their impact.

Colorful page with a group of people standing together with rays of blue light, and multiple spreads featuring CDT members speaking at panels.

 

 

July 2, 2025

KTD Creative will be closed on Friday, July 4th, so our team can spend time with family and friends, recharge, and celebrate the spirit of freedom and community that defines this day. We wish you and your loved ones a safe, joyful holiday filled with good company, great memories, and a few dazzling fireworks. In the meantime, check out our newsletter here.

 

 

June 19, 2025

KTD Creative is looking forward to working with Dance Loft on 14!

 

 

June 11, 2025

KTD Creative is looking forward to working with Innovative Consulting & Management Services (ICMS)!

 

 

 

May 30, 2025

We love it when a plan comes together! The annual report for Dance Place has been delivered. Copywriting, editing, and design by KTD Creative. 💫

A set of printed annual reports on a desk, with a cover featuring a black woman dancing with her arms raised, and one report open to a spread with multiple dancers in a variety of performances.

 

 

 

 

May 6, 2025

A laptop computer with graphics for marketing overlaid on top.

Another fabulous KTD Creative newsletter full of tips and hot takes on marketing is ready!

 

 

 

April 29, 2025

Diorama in the DC Metro is up! It’s a wrap! 🎉

A street ad in the DC metro with a woman dancing, with her arms spread out, headlined "Coyaba's Village Celebration"

 

 

 

April 26, 2025

Our new KTD Creative newsletter is ready! Latest & greatest marketing tips? We got ’em! Read about them here.

Multiple webpages on a dark background, with images of a diverse range of people exercising in various ways, and two designs featuring women dancing.

 

April 23, 2025

It’s a wrap! 🎉

Annual report completed for Dance Place. From concept to content to design, KTD Creative really brought the annual report to life. KTD Creative wrote, edited, and designed the booklet for Washington, DC’s premier dance venue. Dance Place offers performances, dance classes for adults and kids, and arts in education programs for youth.

An African American woman in a flowing red hat dancing with her arms raised.

 

 

 

 

April 12, 2025

KTD Creative thrives on the strategic and visual intricacies involved in editing and designing brochures for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Our team deeply values the importance of conveying complex medical information in a manner that is both visually engaging and easily digestible—especially when addressing a condition as multifaceted as pulmonary hypertension, which demands both clarity and compassion in communication.

Animated GIF titled " Looking for great marketing ideas? We've got plenty of them," showcasing numerous vibrant pages sampled from brochures designs for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.

 

 

March 22, 2025

One of our favorite logo design projects is Cellar Door Apothecary.

"Cellar Door Apothecary" logotype written in tan on top of a yellow outline of a flower, with "To Life" written in the O of Apothecary.

 

 

 

 

March 7, 2025

We are ready to bring your brand to life. Check out our latest newsletter. Contact us today!

 

Animated GIF titled "Bringing Ideas to Life," showcasing numerous dynamic pages sampled from brochures designs for Dance Place.

 

February 16, 2025

More information on why you need an annual report. Read the latest KTD Creative eNewsletter here.

Various covers of annual reports in different colors and sizes, including imagery of protest signs, farmers at work, diverse groups of people, women dancing, and vibrant landscapes.

 

 

February 13, 2025

Intern Anika Kapur experimenting and having fun.

A neon KTD Creative sign in Kyoto photo at night.

 

 

February 6, 2025

Funny to look up at a wall at Everhart Veterinary Medicine in Baltimore and see a logo KTD Creative designed – The Buddy Foundation. We designed their WordPress website, too.

A certificate of gratitude to Everhart Veterinary Hospital, featuring the logo of The Buddy Foundation, which includes a basset hound graphic and a stethoscope-shaped Y.

 

 

February 6, 2025

KTD Creative is delighted to welcome our new University of Maryland, College Park interns for the spring semester—Anika Kapur and Soeun Kim! 🎉 As they dive into the world of design and marketing, we’re excited to have them on board and can’t wait to see their talent in action!

University of Maryland, College Park logo, with the red, white, black, and gold design of the Maryland flag warped in a globe shape.

 

 

February 5, 2025

What are some effective ways to communicate a brand’s story to make it memorable? Our February newsletter is filled with tips you can use.

Read on.

Graphic of the number 10, with "storytelling quick tips" written beside it, and a yellow hand pointing at it.

 

February 1, 2025

We love seeing our clients receive great media coverage! Dance Place truly appreciates the article — thank you!

 

January 28, 2025

KTD Creative’s Chief Marketer & Creative Director, Kate Tallent, was interviewed in December 2024 by Cohart, an online art market, about marketing tips for artists. The link below is to the full interview with lots of marketing tips for artists:

https://www.cohart.com/news/marketing-101-for-artists-part-1

 

 

January 13, 2025

It’s up! We love seeing our work in the DC Metro. Both the ad copy and design are by KTD Creative.

A woman in the DC Metro walking by a large pink billboard featuring multiple dancers.

 

 

January 4, 2025

Happy 20th Birthday to KTD Creative! 🎉🥳 What an incredible milestone — we’ve enjoyed two decades of creativity, innovation, and growth. KTD Creative started in January 2005 out of one room in a house located in Logan Circle. You can see our birthday celebration eNewsletter here.

Some highlights of our journey include working for:

  • The White House Fellows Program
  • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
  • Arc of Prince George’s County
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Louisiana
  • World Bank
  • Georgetown University

A graphic with letters spelling out "Happy Birthday" written on pink banners along a string, and a pink hand holding multicolored balloons, one of which having a 20 on it

Thank you to all of our clients. We will be sharing more highlights over the coming year.

 

December 27, 2024

Thank you to all our clients for an incredible year! We’re taking some well-deserved time off for the holidays and will see you in 2025.

Here’s to a joyful and successful New Year!

Text in a script font reading "Happy New Year" in black on a white background.

 

December 23, 2024

KTD Creative edited a report (and appendix) for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. You can read the entire report here.

 

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December 17, 2024

Today, we bid farewell to our intern-extraordinaire, Catie Callahan! From bringing her A-game to KTD Creative to keeping us all smiling, she’s been an all-star. We are sorry to see her go but excited as she enters her last semester at the University of Maryland at College Park.

"Thank you" written black with a script font on white background.

December 13, 2024

KTD Creative’s Chief Marketer & Creative Director Kate Tallent was recently interviewed by Cohart, which is an online art market, about marketing tips for artists.

See a segment here.

 

 

December 12, 2024

KTD Creative’s latest newsletter is out! Enjoy! 

Animation of a bird in a holiday sweater with a speech bubble reading "Joy!"

 

November 23, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving from KTD Creative! Our holiday newsletter is ready!

 

November 15, 2024

Check out the latest and greatest KTD Creative eNewsletter! Don’t miss it.

 

October 31, 2024

Let KTD Creative write and design your next direct mail piece to specific geographic areas. We can assist with coordinating the list, purchasing names/addresses from particular zip codes, and mailing them directly. Postcards are a great place to start to drive traffic to your website from these residents and businesses. Ask us how we can help!

Postcard for Dance Place with a dancer on a rooftop and pink and purple colors.

 

October 24, 2024

Check out our special KTD Creative Halloween eNewsletter!
Boo!

 

October 8, 2024

KTD Creative’s latest eNewsletter is out. Don’t miss it.

 

October 6, 2024

We look forward to working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

 

September 27, 2024

Creative is looking forward to designing a new CD for our client the World Music Collective. We designed their logo a few years ago!
Colorful sound wave design in purple, blue, yellow, brown, green, and red with the words "World Music Collective" written underneath in dark grey.

 

September 24, 2024

Motion graphics are powerful because they combine visual storytelling with movement, making complex or abstract concepts easier to understand and more engaging. Ask us how we can create these for your organization.

 

September 18, 2024

Print design projects are some of our favorite to design. Trifold brochure for Dance Place located in Washington, DC.

A brochure cover with a girl doing a backflip.

 

September 12, 2024

Our latest KTD Creative eNewsletter is out! You don’t want to miss it.

 

September 6, 2024

It’s a wrap! We just wrapped up the designs for Dance Place’s new performance season.

Street ad with a woman tap dancing on pink background.

 

September 6, 2024

It’s a wrap! We just wrapped up a Squarespace website design for our client PesnerLaw PLLC  https://www.spesnerlaw.com/

Black and white photo of hands signing documents.

 

August 31, 2024

It’s a wrap! We just wrapped up the design of the annual report for the Center for Democracy and Technology located in Washington, D.C.

Cover of a report with white "Towards A Responsible Digital Future" text written on top of a blue background with depth and pixels.

 

August 31, 2024

It’s a wrap! We just wrapped up the season program for Dance Place located in Washington, D.C. and are delighted with the results. We both edited the program and designed it.

A woman in Baltimore is sitting on top of a chimney on a roof and wearing gold pants and athletic shoes.

 

August 27, 2024

KTD Creative just launched this new site. Do you like it? We love it!

 

August 15, 2024

KTD Creative is delighted to call PesnerLaw PLLC of Virginia a new client. We are delighted to design and build their new company Squarespace site.

 

August 11, 2024

KTD Creative recently completed marketing services for Maryland small business BBA Social Work Services.

Bright, colorful website page with students studying, and an African American woman and child sitting across from each other in small white chairs.

 

August 10, 2024

KTD Creative is delighted to be providing marketing services to Dance Place in Washington, DC. Dance Place is a non-profit center of dance activity in Washington, DC offering performances, dance classes for adults and kids, and arts in education programs for youth. KTD provides marketing consulting including marketing strategy, writing, editing and design.

 

August 10, 2024

KTD Creative completed the branding for government contractor Kaplerchuk Consulting Group located in Towson, Maryland. We designed the new logo, created social media graphics, and designed and developed a brand-new Squarespace site www.kaplerchuk.com.

A seaside image with boats, a woman in a conference room with other people, and a woman looking at the camera with blonde hair.

 

August 9, 2024

KTD Creative is delighted to welcome new intern Catie Callahan on University of Maryland.