Studio Kai
VANCOUVER, BC — TAKING WORK

Design that
survives
reality

Brand and product design for people who have to ship it on Monday. Run by Cailine Keirstead — you work with the person doing the work.

See the work Start something

Built out of
a design scene

Studio Kai came out of FLUI — a Vancouver design jam Kai co-founded that puts a room of designers on one problem for a weekend. Most of the people we work with, we met there.

FLUI design jam, Vancouver ▶ Play the reel FLUI JAM, 2024–2026 · 1:40
Kai and the FLUI exec team
Meet Kai

Independent product designer in Vancouver. Last few years leading design at a venture-backed startup, the rest of it running Studio Kai. We'll tell you what we'd cut — most clients say that's the useful part.

Four years of jams, roughly 300 designers through the door, and a roster we can call on same-day.
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More about the studio →
Brand identity  ·  Product design  ·  Websites  ·  Design systems  ·  Illustration  ·  Brand identity  ·  Product design  ·  Websites  ·  Design systems  ·  Illustration  · 

Selected
work

Three worth showing.
Everything shipped.
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Startups, studios and stubborn small businesses — most of them still here years later.

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We also partner with studios and agencies who need design capacity without another full-time hire. Partnerships →

Tell us what
you're avoiding

One email, no form. Say what you're building and when it needs to exist. We reply within two working days, and we'll tell you honestly if it isn't a fit.

kai@studiokai.ca Or find us on LinkedIn, eventually.
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