Kelsey Keith

Design person with an editorial point-of-view

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2025-: Creative director for MillerKnoll, which entails enterprise-level brand and creative oversight of the global company that owns Herman Miller, Knoll, Geiger, DWR, and 11 other design brands.

2021-2025: Brand creative director at Herman Miller, the 100-year-old Michigan-based furniture manufacturer with a robust archive and history of designer collaborations. 

Brand collaboration with Heath Ceramics, 2025
New Mexico Collection in partnership with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2025
Chicago showroom seating experience concept, 2025
Seasonal creative direction and retail location shoots: Spring/Summer 2023 through Fall 2025
Ideas
magazine launch, 2024
New York and London showroom openings, 2024
Brand identity redesign, 2024
Herman Miller Vintage in partnership with Wright, 2023
“Herman Miller 100” brand campaign, 2023
Eames Steinberg chair special-edition drop, 2023
Graphics exhibition during Milan Design Week, 2023
Herman Miller x HAY Collection launch, 2022
Ray Wilkes ‘Chiclet’ reissue, 2021

Herman Miller + Heath Gathered Collection; still life photos by Graydon Herriott / New Mexico Collection, shot on location at the Georgia O’Keeffe House by Mariko Reed / Fall/winter 2025 campaign; photos by Kelly Marshall / Office-focused shoot in Villa Borsani, Milan; photo by Laure Joliet / Ideas magazine / New York City showroom; photo by Jason Schmidt / Brand identity designed by Order / Herman Miller Vintage launched with Wright in LA / Ad in the New Yorker for Herman Miller’s 100th anniversary, design by Kelly O’Hara / Herman Miller graphics exhibition for Milan Design Week / Steinberg chair launch in New York / Herman Miller x HAY Collection / New and vintage ads for Wilkes Modular Sofa Group