I create with and for the storytellers, the caretakers of the earth, and the builders of community.
If your work falls into any of these realms, let's join forces to build something meaningful.
I approach design as a form of organizational stewardship—balancing high-fidelity creative execution with operational strategy. By masterminding comprehensive production lifecycles and modernizing digital infrastructures, I help non-profits and purpose-driven businesses optimize their creative output while protecting their operating capital.
Whether scaling an internal creative team or architecting your next major campaign launch, I deliver end-to-end design across the entire media ecosystem:
Digital Platforms: Web graphics, social media assets, and digital marketing kits.
Motion & Broadcast: On-air graphics, video overlays, kinetic typography, animation, and dynamic promotional content.
Print & Editorial: Multi-page publications, annual reports, typography systems, vector illustrations, and physical marketing collateral.
Spatial & Environmental: Large-scale fabrications, event branding, structural wayfinding, signage, and immersive physical experiences.
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SENIOR INTEGRATED DESIGNER
Driven by a spirit of public service, Ginger Santiago is a senior integrated designer and director with more than ten years of experience crafting visual touchpoints that build community and trust. Her work spans digital, broadcast, print, and experiential environments, ensuring mission-driven narratives resonate deeply across diverse public media and academic audiences.
Ginger approaches design as a form of organizational stewardship—balancing high-fidelity creative execution with operational efficiency. By leading comprehensive production lifecycles and modernizing digital infrastructures, she helps non-profits and mission-aligned businesses optimize their output while preserving essential operating capital.
She welcomes collaborations with visionary causes, mission-driven roles, art commissions, or licensing partnerships.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Brand & Identity:
Brand Identity Systems
National Brand Governance
Cross-Platform Campaigns
Style Guide Development
Editorial & Layout:
Typography
Publication Architecture
Pre-Press Optimization
Digital Publishing Formats
Substrate & Stock Specification
Production & Vendor Management:
Print Vendor Procurement
CMYK / Pantone Color Calibration
Press Proofing & Audits
Quality Control Management
Motion & Digital:
Visual Storytelling
Motion Graphics
Video Editing
Interactive PDF & Flipbook Deployment
Spatial & Environmental:
Experiential Design
Environmental Signage
Wayfinding Systems
3D Spatial Layouts
APPLICATIONS AND PLATFORMS
Design & Editorial:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat
Motion & Broadcast:
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Media Encoder
Self-Publishing:
Kindle Direct Publishing
Digital & Web Publishing:
Issuu
Squarespace
Presentations, Collaboration & Workflow:
Asana • Slack • Microsoft Office Suite
SENIOR LEVEL SKILLSET
Lead
Organize
Track
Collaborate
Develop
Maintain
Art Direction
Quality and Compliance
Project Management
Designs and Revisions
Pipelines and Deadlines
Innovation
Senior Level Skillset
The Arts & Culture: Elevating the voices of theatre companies, visual artists, musicians, and authors through striking visuals, poster art, book layouts, and promotional design.
Nature & Conservation: Partnering with those dedicated to botany, gardening, wildlife conservation, and climate change mitigation to visually communicate environmental awareness and impact.
Animal Welfare & Companionship: Partnering with animal shelters, rescue groups, veterinary practices, and wildlife rehabilitators to design clear, compassionate, and impactful visual assets that advocate for animal well-being and adoption.
Non-Profits & Mission-Aligned Brands: Helping purpose-driven organizations amplify their message with clear, compassionate, and highly effective design assets.
Individual & Community Wellness: Creating serene, welcoming visual identities for holistic practitioners, therapists, yoga studios, and community health providers.
Lore, Fantasy & Worldbuilding: Bringing mythical realms to life for indie game developers, tabletop RPG creators, fantasy authors, and lore enthusiasts.
Indigenous Communities & Creators: Collaborating with Indigenous peoples and organizations with deep respect, offering design that honors heritage and amplifies modern indigenous initiatives.
Vintage & History: Designing for historical societies, museums, preservationists, and vintage brands who want to blend classic aesthetics with modern functionality.
Ethical Tech & Open-Source Software: Designing user-friendly interfaces or branding for privacy-focused applications, open-source projects, and digital rights groups.
Sustainable Fashion & Goods: Partnering with eco-friendly apparel lines, zero-waste shops, and artisanal makers who prioritize slow production and ethical sourcing.
Education & Lifelong Learning: Creating engaging materials for alternative schools, homeschooling networks, museum education programs, and independent educators.
Independent Media & Publishing: Collaborating with indie zines, niche magazines, community newspapers, and independent journalists who tell overlooked stories.
Local Food & Regenerative Agriculture: Visualizing the branding and packaging for community-supported agriculture (CSAs), farmers' markets, urban farms, and ethical food cooperatives.
Social Justice & Advocacy: Designing campaign graphics, protest art, or educational resources for grassroots movements, mutual aid groups, and human rights advocates.
Choose Your Vibe: From Structured to Wild
Collaboration & Stewardship
Cross-Functional Alignment
Stakeholder Management
Resource Stewardship
Vendor & Fabricator Relations
Interactive Deployment
Leadership & Strategy
Art Direction
Brand Governance
Design Innovation
Creative Autonomy
Visual Storytelling
Project & Pipeline
Full-Lifecycle Management
Workflow Architecture
Production Quality Control
Timeline & Deadline Control
Compliance & Accessibility
A long time ago, I used to want to be a writer. Being attracted to the scene of it all, such as coteries, libraries, smoky poetry readings, and dusty manuscripts, I started working at a small press learning the ropes as a publishing assistant. We published titles from Alan Watts and Ted Nelson. It was here I learned computer arts and desktop publishing.
Back then I was writing poetry and dreamed one day I would write a novel. To this day, I still have a collection of Table of Contents pages with very funny chapter titles and no written chapters to accompany them. Idea: I will publish them here as experimental poetry.
I attended university at the time to become a professional writer, but found out that I was not ready for anything that looked like discipline. I also had a long way to go yet on a healing journey that I never knew was coming for me.
From publishing I moved into the LGBTQ+ nightclub scene making club-kid type parties and events. This took me into the underground, social movements, and experimental and experiential arts. In these informative years I surrounded myself with multiple streams of knowledge that fed my perspectives and interests.
Over the years I have completed thousands of freelance art and design gigs. Eventually, in midlife I decided to go back to school and learn more about my love and work in computers. There I met professors and students who shared my passions. Another iteration of me was born.
Around that time an huge opportunity for healing presented itself to me and I took it. This part of my life is a novel in itself, so I will leave it that. But, it was after this time that my alter ego Sky was born: Sky because she could not be contained. Sky because she didn’t care. Sky because she could get really moody and wild or become very deep and peaceful. Sky because she was cosmic. Sky because she was/was not the root of the matter.
I needed to bring this all together and integrate it—to take steps to make my life make sense and offer a contribution to other, and always the main drive has remained: explore more. This is called “Sky2Urth” in my own cosmology. You probably consider this story a branding story. I guess it is in the way as I continue to try to make all of my multidimensional worlds work together inside a simple and harmonious life.
As you can see I am just a person that has taken a journey that is a bit bohemian. Character backstories aside, Sky2Urth Studio is my creative testbed. Here, I experiment with complex digital arts and emerging technologies.
My marketing design work is deeply rooted in ecosystems, creating the visual threads that connect missions, brands, and community. As a strategic partner, I shape impactful visual identities, drive public engagement, and practice smart stewardship. I bring a 360-degree approach to creative solutions—fusing multidisciplinary insights with intentional, scalable design across all mediums.
My personal art is working within a Jungian context and influenced by many computer artists along the way. I also have an entire body of work that is not computer art such as earthworks, paintings and drawings, and sculptures.
I now working as a public media professional, which the idealist in me loves. I promote the arts, science, and education.
I am open to career opportunities, limited freelance gigs, and commissions and licensing.
The Creative Spectrum
Every project demands a different volume. Move through the spectrum to see how I scale my work from tailored, community-minded graphic design to unrestricted digital art.
Clean & Structured
Purpose-driven branding, minimalist layouts, and balanced typography. Built for non-profits, wellness brands, and ethical community organizations that require crisp, trusted, and highly functional visuals.
The Blended Realm
Where corporate structure meets raw imagination. Perfect for independent authors, green businesses, and musicians who want highly professional designs infused with custom illustration, rich organic textures, and deep lore.
Wild & Experimental
Unrestricted digital illustration and boundary-pushing art labs. Built for street apparel, indie games, and editorial features looking for heavy textures, vivid colors, surrealism, and a chaotic, striking aesthetic.
Let’s collaborate
on Your Next Chapter.
My work is deeply rooted in ecosystems, creating the visual threads that connect missions, brands, and community.
As a strategic partner, I shape impactful visual identities, drive public engagement, and practice smart stewardship.
I bring a 360-degree approach to creative solutions—fusing multidisciplinary insights with intentional, scalable design across all mediums.
Here, creativity meets opportunity. Whatever you're building, I’m here to help you take the first step with confidence. Let’s create something meaningful together.