Welcome to my illustration and design portfolio. Although I am primarily focusing my design sensibilities on native garden design, I still offer custom branding and illustration services for caring and creative individuals and organizations. For years, I have created hand drawn logos, illustrations, and websites. I specialize in hand-drawn fonts and icons and helping clients communicate who they are through color, typeface and copy. I also apply the same SEO framework that I utilize for my gardening design to your site, so you can be found by search engines. I’ve also helped clients with book cover and film poster illustration, and even illustrated a coloring book for a local small business.
My Graphic Design Story on LinkedIn Learning
Watch the video to learn how my journey began.
Logos
I can design a unique logo and create a custom typeface for your brand. I created the typefaces for all the logos in the first row. Yes, I can even animate it.
Branding
Illustration
I designed the covers for two books and the Imagemaker movie poster. I am also the logo designer for the national mothering collective, MAEVE. I work with chapters across the country to create an original icon for each.
WordPress Websites
I create and host WordPress websites, handling copywriting, SEO, create illustrations and icons, source, create and edit images. All of my clients are on the first listing on Google for their name. After working with another marketing team, a local city council candidate was still not on the front page of Google. Three days after we began working together his site was the first Google search result for his name.
I also built stable1studio.com.
Seamless Patterns
Moodboards
Testimonials
I highly recommend working with Diana – she asked all the right questions to deepen her understanding of my process and brand messaging. Diana is an incredible artist and collaborator and I appreciate the way she distilled a great deal of my brand words and nebulous thoughts into an image that I am so proud to have represent my brand. I appreciate that she incorporated all the aspects that were personally important to me and created something that felt like California, handcrafted, and has that subtle nod to my Chinese heritage but is also open enough to embrace and celebrate others’ cultures while feeling safer at home. What a journey we have had together!
Diana was wonderful to work with as a cover designer. Even though I had hired another illustrator, I knew right away that her image and idea captured the core of my novel. Diana was so great at communicating with me and asked all the right questions. She was incredibly professional and attentive. She also is a whiz with fonts and created beautiful images for me. I can’t recommend her enough as a cover artist, and I can’t wait to work with her again.
Diana’s experience as an artist set the stage for us to be able to think and vision outside the box of typical logo and branding templates, trends + ‘shoulds.’ Her ability to listen so carefully, imagine so vividly, + adapt so deftly are the magic ingredients that made this logo possible. She cares about the project, person behind it + mission of the brand in the way that an artist cares for their creation, and that is absolutely priceless.
Diana Kohne is a treasure. She knew exactly what I wanted, but way hipper and more bold and stylized. She’s got a magical process for design that takes through what even you didn’t know you were looking for. She takes your feedback into the process and interprets what you are saying to make it 100x better. I knew I needed an expert for my logo but I appreciated that she is also a fine artist, because that lends so much creativity and intuitive spirit to the journey. I adore Diana. I highly recommend her to everyone I know.
What can I design for you?