We help organizations turn vision into momentum. Grounded in real human behavior, our work is built to be strategically sound, emotionally resonant, and operationally clear—customized, insight-driven, and executed with precision by an award-winning team of strategists, storytellers, and designers. We are a boutique agency by design: small and nimble enough to move quickly and stay close to your goals, and deep enough to deliver work that lands.
That range is the point. In the past year alone, our small team has taken on the work of a full agency several times over.
Across engagements like these, we move fluidly between roles—brand strategist, creative director, researcher, writer and editor, designer, and project manager—often functioning as our clients’ entire marketing department.
Our capabilities run the full breadth of modern marketing: brand and logo design; website design and development; marketing strategy and audience research; content creation and editing; print, publication, and event design; illustration, photography, and video; and SEO, analytics, and conversion optimization.
And the organizations that trust us with this work are just as wide-ranging—nonprofits, arts and cultural institutions, universities, associations, healthcare innovators, foundations, and government and scientific bodies—from a statewide industry guild and a beloved DC-area arts publication to Georgetown University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
We proudly partner with organizations across the Mid-Atlantic—Baltimore, Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia—and beyond. If you would like a clearer sense of how we work in practice, we are happy to share the case studies behind this work: our approach, our process, and our results—just ask.
At KTD Creative, our team of digital marketers, strategists, designers, and developers can help you reach your integrated marketing goals. From concept to execution, we deliver digital, print, audio, video, and graphic design solutions that move your organization forward.
For our government clients, KTD Creative is registered under the following NAICS codes:
541430 – Graphic Design Services
541613 – Marketing Consulting Services
516210 – Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers
54151 – Website Design and Development
512110 – Motion Picture and Video Production
519130 – Internet Publishing and Broadcasting, and Web Search Portals
519290 – Web Search Portals and Other Information Services
541890 – Other Services Related to Advertising
541810 – Advertising Agencies
We also offer custom packages for small businesses and solopreneurs.
Let’s connect and create something extraordinary together — we’d love to meet you.
KTD Creative is a Baltimore-based boutique marketing and creative agency that provides strategic communications, branding, digital marketing, and design services for nonprofits, arts organizations, cultural institutions, and mission-driven businesses.
Founded by Kate Tallent, KTD Creative helps organizations strengthen brand positioning, clarify messaging, and build meaningful audience connections through integrated marketing strategies and thoughtful creative design.
The agency specializes in:
• Marketing strategy and communications planning
• Brand positioning and messaging development
• Website strategy, content development, and design
• Search engine optimization (SEO) and digital marketing
• Annual report and publication design
• Social media strategy and content development
• Data visualization and accessible design
• Outsourced marketing support for organizations without in-house marketing teams
KTD Creative works with organizations that want marketing systems that are strategic, creative, and aligned with their mission.
I am delighted with the WordPress website design development process and the finished product. KTD Creative made a less than aesthetically pleasing business look great on the web! More importantly, they kept us on task and moved the project to completion despite our best efforts to derail their schedule. Kudos to KTD Creative. I can’t wait to work with them again.
We’ve hired KTD Creative on a range of large- and small-scale design projects over the past year, and their ability to pivot and scale to meet our evolving needs has been outstanding. We also engaged Kate as a Communications Consultant, and she seamlessly integrated with our team—navigating multiple deadlines and shifting priorities with professionalism and ease. Working with KTD Creative has been a consistently positive experience, and I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them again (and again, and again)!
We hired KTD Creative to design our WordPress website. This has been one of the best return on investments for our company. The site was designed so that we have easy methods to do our own updates as we add projects and other information. We have had nothing but rave reviews about the appearance and content of the site.
Working with Kate and the KTD Creative team was an absolute pleasure! Our project needed to be completed within a very short time frame, and the team worked with us to get the materials turned around quickly. The final products were absolutely beautiful and will be used by our organization for years to come. I couldn’t recommend KTD enough!
I was referred to KTD Creative with the understanding that the team were gifted artists with a lot of experience. I was told that they were very good at creating concepts, branding and logos. Now that we have completed a project together, I am the one singing KTD’s praises.
We were at the beginning of a full scale website redesign for WYPR 88.1 FM. Part of the launch included a new logo. KTD Creative helped to redesign the logo and to give our Drupal site a new design that exceeded our expectations. The web design is just what we wanted. We could not be happier with the results. KTD is a professional team that was able to deliver the final product ahead of schedule.
I’ve worked with the KTD team on several projects and they are always very responsive to my needs and to the smallest of details. I highly recommend them!
KTD Creative has been our go-to source for print and web projects when fresh ideas and creative design were top priorities. They always set realistic and clear expectations, goals, and timelines. They were always responsive and ready to answer questions and explain their recommendations. As a repeat customer, I would not hesitate to go back to them again.
Our partnership (because Kate and her team of talented designers really do become partners in creating a visual story for your organization) began with a topical report that was so well done that we continue to collaborate 4 years later. We have done annual reports, topical reports, brochures, and video production. KTD Creative has helped create a visual branding for Farmworker Justice which has received excellent feedback from stakeholders and various federal agencies. KTD is a pleasure to work with and the team’s ability to translate ideas into high-quality, edgy graphics makes my job as a communications director so much easier (and makes me look good)!
Our Private Equity firm hired KTD Creative to prepare a marketing PowerPoint deck for one of our foreign companies. The KTD team transformed a technically complex concept into a beautiful, crisp presentation with complex illustrations and information graphics that is easily understood across borders. KTD cares about their clients, as most of this work was completed during a tight deadline around the holidays. We look forward to working with them again.
Working with KTD has proved to be a fantastic decision! Kate and her team are very professional, easy-going, and receptive. We hired KTD Creative for 3 of our companies annual events- very different in clientele and scope, from a lobby day, to legal representatives, to executives, and they have been amazing through each one with initiative concepts for each. They really listened to what we were looking for and have been timely with all deliveries. It has been a pleasure working with Kate and team- they make it easy and their final product is always first class. Would highly recommend KTD Creative!
The KTD Creative team did a great job for us for our branding. From design inception to WordPress website completion they were great. They did the SEO and wrote all the text for both the new website and brochure. We really appreciate the new logo, stationary, brochure, website and brand they created.
I chose to work with KTD Creative because they are one of the most highly regarded design firms in DC. Working with the team on my new company logo was like meeting with an old friend- the staff is personable, professional and attentive. KTD’s designs are cutting edge. Their attention to detail is impeccable- far beyond any design firm I’ve worked with before. KTD is the standard for design.
Our nonprofit organization hired KTD Creative to design a handbook. We had never produced anything like it. The team was patient in the face of our extending deadlines and stayed in great touch with us for all of the revisions.
From the very beginning, I knew working with KTD would be different from working with any other designers! Not only was the process of developing our logo professional, it also had a very personal touch that truly showed through in the uniqueness of our logo. During our first session, Kate and her team conducted thorough interviews to find themes, colors, and imagery that finally concluded in the perfect logo for our company Half Hearted Fully Conscious. The logo is AMAZING and has the perfect appeal for the apparel that will be the first product of our lifestyle brand! Kate and team literally blew us away with this design and we are very happy with the logo and the decision to work with KTD. We will definitely work with KTD in the future.
The quality of both the design work and the review/edit process is a cut above the competition! KTD Creative has become the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities’ trusted source for high-quality design for both print and interactive projects. KTD’s web development team also came through for our project in a pinch when we needed additional support in addressing WordPress website maintenance issues.