Barbara McDonald
Publisher
Santa Fe Reporter

Kat Topaz is one of the nation's top newspaper designers. Her artistic sense is both very cool and very smart. Through her leadership, Willamette Week has a design that's inspired the rest of the country. As a consultant to the Santa Fe Reporter, she's been superb in her assessments of our needs in training, design, and equipment. Her enthusiasm about graphic design and the newspaper business will excite everyone she works with. She's worked for me for seven years and she's been the best graphic designer I've ever known.

Jody Colley
Sales & Marketing Director
San Francisco Bay Guardian

Topaz's design has created new revenue opportunities for the Guardian. More premium positions were introduced and are quickly sold out. Advertisers enjoy more placement next to editorial than before, increasing ad response and client retention. The design brilliantly integrates print content with the web.

Her ability to work cross-departmentally to ensure that editorial and advertising priorities were given thorough consideration contributed to the enormous success of our redesign.

Her project management from beginning to end never faltered. She has the rare ability to articulate her design perspective while also critically listening to the feedback of the team.

The final product of her work was nothing less than inspiring for our staff. The sales staff is proud to put any issue of our newspaper in front of a media buyer or local business owner. We have a product that visually represents throughout every page of the book our passion for the Guardian's mission. After forty years of publishing, the Guardian has never looked stronger.

Bill Bleakley
Publisher
Oklahoma Gazette

Like many alternative newsweeklies, the Oklahoma Gazette had evolved a conglomeration of design elements. Katherine Topaz, with her cutting-edge design and team-building abilities, brought us through a design process which produced an exciting, comprehensive and reader-friendly design....what I found to be incredible was Katherine's exceptional ability to communicate with and lead our production personnel. While commanding the respect of our staff, she was able to communicate with them on a personal level and get them involved in the process, a rare and difficult feat when dealing with a group of creative and individualistic minds. I wholeheartedly recommend Katherine for any manner of consulting in the realm of publication design.

Jeff Lawrence
Publisher
Boston's Weekly Dig

Hiring Topaz Design was the best damn thing I'e ever done. Working with Kat was an absolute dream: she listened to our needs, brought to the table ideas we never dreamed of, and helped us create a book that looks better than anything in our market maybe even the country. I'm going to start another paper just so I can work with her again!