About: Who we are

We build brands that fit just right

Like the best version of you, bright and self-assured. We’ll help you see and celebrate why you’re special, and create everything you need to show up how you’ve always wanted.

We’re great listeners

We listen first, collaborate through every step, and welcome feedback, always. The best solutions are built together, so we make the creative process easy (and enjoyable) to participate in. We value your perspective because we’re building something that’s yours.

We center strategy in storytelling

Copy and design are the best of friends, and make the biggest impact when they’re both honored. Strategy unites them. We craft written and visual language from the same principles, leading to work that tells your complete story.

We believe everything can be special

Any opportunity is a chance to make something extraordinary. We delight in the details and share a bottomless appetite for doing good work. It all comes from a thoughtful foundation of care, consideration, and collaboration.

Our team ^{of friends}

Kate CarterCo-Founder and Creative Director

As Creative Director and leader of design, Kate is a creative force who ignites our team towards a collective vision. She leads from excitement, always, and she’s never too cool for the room. After beginning her creative career in print, she transitioned to agency work, then in-house at OpenTable and Simple Finance, where she led major rebranding projects.

In her own work, she’s deeply inspired by the work of Sister Corita Kent. She’s seen at least twenty seasons of reality tv series “Survivor,” has a knack for fixing up old houses, and aspires to one day actually love gardening.

Nick CarterCo-Founder and Creative Director

Nick leads writing, strategy, and the studio’s jelly bean selection at Saint Friend. He worked agency-side at Wieden+Kennedy, NORTH, and Liquid before leading creative for brand teams at a nonprofit and Simple Finance.
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As an avid people-watcher, he loves finding common ground between people. Perhaps surprising for a former all-district tuba player, he finds inspiration in quiet places like museums, bookstores, and record shops. You can usually find him reading or writing poetry.

Clarissa Fedorovich‍Designer

You’ll find Clarissa in the studio jamming to Joni Mitchell’s Blue or one of her many chaotic playlists. She’s a lifelong dancer and lover of reality tv dating shows who reads a lot of Mary Oliver (“she just gets it”). When she’s not hanging out with her beloved fifteen pound cat Kevin, she spends her free time lounging beside the river and searching for Portland’s best bar fries. Hailing from a California beach town, Clarissa’s sunny outlook keeps our team smiling.

Monday Miller‍Designer

As the studio’s resident life-size Polly Pocket, Monday brings vibrancy through their remarkable illustration skills and eye for type to color the Saint Friend team. When they’re not busy mocking up lyric posters for their favorite artists, you’ll likely find them staying in to craft while enjoying a Youtube deep dive, or venturing across town for some Hotcake House french toast.

We started Saint Friend to fill a little corner of the world with magic

All the good times

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Boys Don't Cry

Love on Top

Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By

Nobody Gets Me

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