About

Brittany Conklin has long been a scrutineer of all types of signage and documentation, joyfully finding typos and critiquing style choices in well-known publications and on oft-read public signs. She has also been a self-taught artist since childhood, constantly playing with design and layout for a wide variety of creative and academic projects.

After high school, Brittany pursued her passion for science (biology, in particular), and earned a B.S. in Ecology and minor in Statistics from Winona State University in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, she was enrolled in the University of Minnesota’s M.S. program in Scientific and Technical Communication—a field that merged her creative roots with her technical academic background. During this time, Brittany honed her skills as a communicator and worked with clients on a variety of projects and documents, including a fellowship project with U.S. Bank for which she developed a visual banking interface concept based on tenets of usability and visual design. Some of her favorite projects included a research paper entitled “Female Gamers: How Designers and Marketers Have Missed the Mark on a Key Demographic,” and a short video documentary about Sci-Fi fan videos called “SqueeTV.”

Brittany has a wide variety of experience, having worked as a bookstore clerk, a biology lab assistant, a houseboat deckhand, a wildlife rehabilitator, an electronics salesperson, a technical editing teaching assistant, a video gaming web journalist, and a corporate regulatory affairs professional.