Klaudia Olmstead

Klaudia is an environmental graphic designer and visual storyteller with the Water Program at SEI US. Her work is centered on turning complex water systems, hydrology, infrastructure, water rights, and management trade-offs into visuals that are legible to both technical experts and elected officials. She approaches design as a bridge between scientific and technical material and the broader audiences who need to understand and act on it.

She brings her experience from her work as a brand experience designer at Primitives Biodesign, where she designed the end-to-end brand identity for a regenerative biomaterials product line, from packaging and product renderings to digital and social media, translating material science into a cohesive visual system. She also directs brand voice and content strategy across social media, press, and live events, shaping how the brand’s ocean restoration mission reaches technical and general audiences alike.

A designer and artist interested in the connections between design, storytelling, and ecology, Klaudia works in the overlap between nature and technology, exploring themes of sustainability and the stories that often go untold. Through independent projects she creates work that sparks curiosity and invites people to look closer, whether through 2D, 3D form, visual narrative, and hands-on design.

She holds a B.F.A. in graphic design from San José State University.

Outside of work, she can be found behind a camera, out on a hike, cooking up a new dish or hanging out with her two cats.