For over a decade, Jillian worked on cross-functional teams — in-house, within agency, and as a freelancer — of all sizes. She is comfortable working with a range team sizes, roles, project timelines.
Typical sectors include banking, healthcare, insurance, startups, government (all sectors), pharmaceutical, non-profit, education, hospitality, fashion, and retail.
She specializes in whip-smart identities, brands, and systems that are intuitive to adopt and scale. Editorial design, book design, packaging, corporate document design, presentation design, and wayfinding are also preferred projects.
In service design — sometimes referred to as human-centred design — Jillian works on dyanmic client teams to improve complex systems for everyone who shapes them and everyone shaped by them.
In her art, Jillian plays in the light and plumbs the depths of her psyche. Self-portraiture, surrealism, figurative abstraction, and dream-like landscapes form striking self-investigations. Worlds within in each painting, the result is at once deeply vulnerable and broadly resonant. Jillian works primarily in oil paint though has been known to incorporate alternative materials with a sustainability edge.
Jillian is available for new work: books are open for October.
Education & Work
Ontario College of Art & Design
BDes, Graphic Design, 2010 – 2014
The Studio of Jillian Katz
Owner, Principal Designer, 2014 – present
Doblin (Absorbed by Deloitte)
Design Consultant, 2015 – 2017
Bridgeable
Senior Designer, 2021 – 2023
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Exhibitions
Self/Not-Selfie
Golden West College, Los Angeles, CA.
October–November 2025. Curation: Tony Pinto
Female Art Night
SAB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. April 2024
Female Art Night
SAB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. October 2024
Press
CanvasRebel. Interview
Heart of Hollywood Magazine.
Instagram Live interview
BoldJourney. Interview