Less than 1% of creative agencies are women-owned. We're one of them.
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Less than 1% of creative agencies are women-owned. We're one of them. ✺
the FATED DESIGN DUO
Between the two of us, we cover a lot of ground. Kaitlyn brings the strategy, the creative direction, and the business thinking that makes sure every brand we build actually works. Chayse brings the visual and technical range to execute it at every level: brand design, photography, video, web.
We've built a working relationship where the strategic and the aesthetic are always in conversation, and that's what makes the work cohesive. When you work with FATED, you're getting both halves of that from the start.
Kaitlyn Palmquist
Founder & Creative Director
Kaitlyn started FATED because she genuinely cares about two things: great work and the people behind it. She leads every project with equal parts strategy and instinct, making sure the aesthetics and the business thinking are always working together. Her background spans design, photography, marketing, and web, which means she understands what a brand needs from every angle. Clients come to FATED and leave feeling taken care of. That's intentional. Every brand built here is researched, specific, and built to last.
Kait, off the clock
Kaitlyn has always been the kind of person who figures it out. That's led her down a lot of roads and picked up a lot of skills along the way, but at her core she's pretty simple: give her a good fantasy book, her three cats, and the people she loves and she's good. She's a fiercely loyal friend and a Libra who leans all the way into it. Her husband Michael has been her person since they were both 16 years old, meeting on MySpace in a way that genuinely shaped how the rest of their lives went. Sixteen years later, still inseparable.
Chayse Henke
Partner & Art Director
Chayse is multi-disciplinary in the truest sense. Brand design, cinematography, studio photography, video production, web — he works across all of it and takes every craft seriously. He's an obsessive learner who is constantly pushing his own work forward, always hunting for the exact right way to give a brand its visual voice. If something needs to be figured out, he figures it out. Chayse is exactly the kind of person you want in your corner: genuinely invested, deeply collaborative, and someone who shows up fully for the work and the people doing it.
Chayse, off the clock
His hobbies rotate on a roughly three-month cycle but movies and drums have been constants his entire life. Any given day involves bouncing between ten different music genres and ending with a horror film or two. He loves bowling, grilling, Old Fashioneds, jazz bars, and Chiefs season. He and his partner Meag have a tiny Australian Shepherd named Juniper who has at least a dozen distinct personalities. She's their only child and she knows it.