KTD Creative works with a technology partner, Ignition 72, on all Drupal and WordPress sites. Ignition72 is the perfect partner to build any KTD Creative designed site; they listen, collaborate, and care. They have over 13 years’ experience building websites.
Ignition72 has been planning, designing, and building websites for over a decade. They specialize in open-source content managements systems like WordPress and Drupal. Their clients include the Federal government, the state of Maryland, research and policy organizations, nonprofits and foundations, universities, and many major companies. What makes them different is an understanding that the best of the web cannot be found in one industry vertical but is in fact a blend of techniques learned across different industries that are focused on user experience, quality content, and accessibility compliance. What they all have in common is the need for modern websites that deliver information to users in an easily accessible way.
Ignition 72 provides the following services to KTD Creative clients:
• Custom Web Development
• User Experience & User Interface Design
• Consulting & Digital Strategy
• Accessibility Testing & Compliance
• AI Consulting
• SEO & Marketing Strategy
• UX Research & Testing
Their dedicated team of web professionals can plan, design, build and write a new WordPress or Drupal website that attracts and engages all audience groups; that displays any messaging in powerful yet easy-to-digest ways; provides all the strategic insight to site usage; and most importantly, empowers your team to evolve the site into the future. They ensure all of our sites are now ADA compliant – WCAG 2.1 Level A.
Hartlove-Goodyear (H/G), a professional, creative team is dedicated to bringing client’s ideas to life. Their expertise spans the spectrum of skills required to tackle any vision a client has for photography or video, but their working style is what sets them apart.
H/G specializes in documentary-style shoots that feature real people in real settings, telling real stories in their own words. H/G’s goal is to create videos and photography that feel natural—professional, but never slick or overproduced. H/G achieve’s this goal by using mostly natural light, limiting the staff we have on set, creating a comfortable atmosphere for their subjects, and leveraging their storytelling and journalistic expertise to draw out any client’s story, the way they want to tell it.
Sharon Mostyn is our “go to” for larger projects. She is a Google-Certified marketing professional with vast expertise in traditional and digital marketing (analytics, email, SEO/SEM & social). She specializes in measuring and optimizing marketing and advertising for business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and agency for the agency (AFTA) clients.
Sharon’s experience with on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Social Media, and Media Placement (TV, radio, print, outdoor, etc.) provides our clients with senior-level services at an affordable price. She also provides marketing strategy and implementation across all aspects of traditional and digital marketing.
Sharon is a nationally recognized authority on digital marketing and content marketing optimization throughout the customer lifecycle. Over her 30-year career as a marketing professional, Sharon has worked with Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized firms, and start-ups in the financial, retail, e-commerce, and technology sectors.
Kyle produces ebooks and 508 compliant material for our client publications. Whether he is designing from scratch or elaborating on a client’s ideas, his mission is to use his creative expertise to ensure publications are 508 compliant. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires federal agencies to develop, procure, maintain and use information and communications technology (ICT) that is accessible to people with disabilities – regardless of whether or not they work for the federal government.
Kyle ensures that our client’s internal and external commitments to equity and accessibility are fulfilled by 508 compliant standards — including PDF documents. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is one of several disability laws and knowing the 508 compliance standards and implementing them is Kyle’s specialty.
Dorothy Fuchs-Yeager is our “go to” for public relations. Dorothy is an award-winning public relations and marketing professional with over thirty years of experience who has worked for pr agencies, special event firms, and non-profits in Baltimore, Washington, DC and nationally. In 2003, she started Purple Dot Public Relations, LLC and has represented various individuals, companies, projects, organizations, and enterprises, ranging from small businesses and non-profits to regional brands and national companies.
Her firm specializes in strategic integrated marketing, public and media relations campaigns, nonprofit partnerships, media sponsorships, cross promotions, grassroots marketing and special events coordination and planning. In addition, she is well versed in social media and digital strategies. Her clients hail from various disciplines such as hospitality and tourism, food and wine, art and culture, history and heritage, environmental and agriculture, entertainment and festivals as well as local and national nonprofits, among others.
Most recently, Ms. Fuchs-Yeager lead the public and media relations efforts for Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 where her leadership and integrated campaigns resulted in over 1,368,308,005 total online and print audience impressions and over $40,446,471 in total online and print value.
KTD Creative has a wonderful designer we turn to when we needs extra hands and killer design chops; Kelly Martin. We think he’s a rock star. Kelly is a creative director, designer and visual thinker with extensive experience across print and digital media. He has proven expertise in developing and elevating brands for consumer and b2b audiences. With a background in journalism and a career-long devotion to information-driven design, Kelly creates audience-focused visual solutions that are thoughtful, approachable and playful.
The team at KTD Creative are wonderful! Their attention to detail and follow up cannot be beat. They would constantly check in to make sure everything was going great, and I think they were more excited than I was when the invitations they designed were sent out. The entire team shares an enthusiasm and strong work ethic and they really make you feel part of their family.
We hired KTD Creative to design a special report for us. This was something new for our nonprofit organization. The team was generous with their time giving us great concepts and very patient when we had to extend our timeline. I highly recommend KTD Creative for their listening skills, creative ideas and professionalism throughout the process.
I had a wonderful experience with the KTD Creative team. They were extremely professional throughout the process with timely responses and clarity about the entire process from signing the contract to the delivery of the designs. This was my first time working with a professional design firm and they were generous with their time while educating me about best practices and advocating for my program. I would highly recommend KTD Creative!
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 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.
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.