Hey.I’m Ksenia. Nice to meet you. I’m a designer, illustrator and art director based in Philadelphia. My experience spans both boutique design studios and in-house tech companies. I’ve led rebrands for institutions like The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and shaped smaller projects for brands like Figma. In my free time, I bake canelés. They sound like cannolis, but they’re far more nuanced — and that difference matters.
Menagerie CoffeePackagingDesign System / Illustration / Art Direction
Beloved in Philadelphia as a neighborhood coffee shop, Menagerie began roasting in-house and needed packaging to reflect this next chapter. I designed a system inspired by the simple tile patterns inside the café and the quiet, gridded compositions of Agnes Martin, grounding the bags in a restrained, familiar visual language. Each roast features a distinct label informed by its flavor profile and origin story, while a small plaque detail nods to the service plaques on the shop’s espresso machines.