Kladi is an award-winning designer, visual strategist, instructor, author and Sr. Design Evangelist and Community Advocate at Adobe. Kladi has a long title with an even bigger mission: to empower, inspire, and support the creative community while sharing design and career tips. But most importantly a job that allows Kladi to focus on what she loves: People, Design, and Innovation. Reach out @iamkladi, her DM is always open for a chat.
Kladi runs an Instagram live show “Creative Connection Live” where the creative community comes together every week.
As a self-published author, Kladi's illustrated book, Plant Therapy, won the world-renowned Fedrigoni TOP Designer Award for her unique use of cotton papers and ink. Kladi has also been the winner of Infohackit and Adobe's Creative Jam during San Francisco Design Week.
In addition to her design work, Kladi often leads graphic design masterclasses for Adobe Live, Adobe events in UK and Design tutorials with over 5M views worldwide.
Kladi has also led social media asset creation workshops for House Representatives in Washington, D.C. for over 4 years. Kladi took part in Adobe MAX every year since 2019,in USA and also in UK as a featured speaker in the Design industry.
She was also a speaker at the exciting Illustrator Summit 2021, Creative PRO WEEK conference, Design & Marketing Summit, Design CUTS, and shared workflow tips in Illustrator in Spanish during Talent Land in Guadalajara, Mexico, and again during the Talented at Home. D many more design conferences around the world.
Kladi is a LinkedIn Learning and Creative Live author and producer; she was also named one of the world's top Illustrator instructors by Adobe Education.
Kladi recently authored, designed, and produced the Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp available on Adobe Education Exchange, Adobe Illustrator Conquests (animation & storyline-based onboarding for Ai beginners); Illustrator and Photoshop Cross-App onboarding hybrid tutorials, Creative essentials training course, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Templates with follow-along tutorials, hands-on tutorials available inside Illustrator's Discover Panel and the interconnected hybrid animated Photoshop and Illustrator videos that lead to the hands-on tutorials.