Portrait

I'm a designer and musician based out of Washington, DC. Creative Director at Graphicacy, an Information and data visualization design agency. Previously, I worked as Senior Designer at World Resources Institute, and am a recent graduate of the Information Visualization Masters program at Maryland Institute College of Art. You can see my latest work by following me on instagram.

Design Expertise includes:

  • Print Design
  • Logo Design / Branding
  • Data Visualization
  • Illustration / Infographic Design
  • UX/UI Design

You can catch my playing music in these projects:

Exhibitions, Talks, & Awards 

  • Outlier Conference: "Co designing Data Visualizations" panelist and speaker
    London, UK • June 11th, 2025
    Presented on the Kendeda Funds Virtual Garden project, during a panel on co-designing.
  • DVS NYC Meetup Group — Designing Compelling DataViz
    New York City • March 14, 2024
    Gave an hour long presentation, followed by Q+A to a large group of around 100 people for an event hosted by the NYC chapter of the Data Visualization Society.
  • Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2019: Student
    London, UK • November 20th, 2019
    “Visualizing the History of Fugazi” won the Student category at the 2019 Information is Beautiful Awards.
  • Action. Reaction. Action: Visualizing Fugazi
    Lost Origins Gallery • Washington, DC • April 13–May 19, 2019
    A solo exhibit of graduate thesis project, in partnership with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival event series “The Social Power of Music.” Opening reception drew over 250 people.
  • Power of Infographics Session at Communicating Science Seminar
    AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC • February 14, 2019
    Presented on design process for graphics at WRI as well as best practices for collaboration between designers and researchers.
  • DataViz DC Meetup Presentation: Visualizing Fugazi
    Arlington Tech eXchange • January 22, 2019
    Gave a 30 minute presentation, followed by Q+A to a large group of around 100 people for a joint event by the DataViz DC and the Art+Code DC Meetup groups.
  • Tapestry Conference on Storytelling with Data
    University of Miami • November 20th, 2018
    Gave a 10 minute lightning talk during the second day of the conference, sharing a sneak peak of my Visualizing Fugazi project

Please be in touch: carni.klirs@gmail.com. Follow me on instagram or twitter.