Kate addresses our culture’s obsession with aesthetics, and the importance of empathy and authenticity in a brand’s core message.
About the speaker
Wit & Delight is an ongoing project created by Kate Arends. Founded in 2009, the lifestyle website has evolved into a brand that celebrates a combination of veracious expression and simple elegance with an approachable, yet edited point of view. Above all, Wit & Delight is dedicated to the development of it’s contributors and readers, promoting self discovery, mental health advocacy, and wellness topics as the foundation of a life well lived.
Wit & Delight reaches a million readers everyday, and has been featured in Martha Stewart Living, Women’s Wear Daily, Fast Company, New York Times, and Elle Decor, among other national publications. In 2014, Wit & Delight introduced a limited-edition product line with Target Corporation.
Kate Arends is a Minneapolis-based consultant, specializing in branding, high-level communications and content strategy, creative direction, and graphic design. Her work has been published in AIGA 365, Communication Arts, and Print Magazine, and her career clients include: Target, Levi’s, Gap, Red Wing Heritage, Tiffany’s, Jack Daniel’s, Thymes LLC, Kate Spade, Madewell, Gap, Sperry Topsider, H&M, Anthropologie, Shinola, Topshop, and Warby Parker.
In addition to Wit & Delight, Kate is currently consulting for a handful of corporations and small businesses on brand and communication initiatives. Kate lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband, Joe Peters, and their sweet English labrador, Winnie Bear.
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Being human is a really messy thing.
It’s easy as creators to make style mean too much.
Beauty without meaning is really a truer definition of ugly than to say something is unpleasant to look at.
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"Use your strategic muscle to help a company find their soul" -Kate Arends