Company
Primatial Design is a two-person graphic design and web technology team based in San Francisco. They have extensive experience creating content-rich Websites for clients both large and small. Over the past nine years, they have designed and developed Websites, Content Management Systems and databases for major magazines, health care providers, online retailers, investment banking firms, and universities.
Currently, Primatial Design's creative principal, Kim Heilman, offers Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Visual Design, and Project Management services. Technical Principal Bjorn Foster has been employed by a former client since September 2004.
Kim Heilman, CREATIVE PRINCIPAL
Kim has ten years experience architecting and designing Websites. She specializes in collaborating with editors and developers on projects that involve multiple groups in far-flung locations.
Before co-founding Primatial Design in 2000, she was part of a team who concepted and designed early online presences for VH1, Bank of America, Intel and America Online. Her experience includes e-commerce retail strategy and partner marketing, art directing photographers and creative teams, and working with editors to develop online editorial strategy. She is currently a contributing editor for Health.com.
A graduate of Reed College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Kim spends her spare time making sculpture and traveling.
Bjorn Foster, TECHNICAL PRINCIPAL
Bjorn has implemented sites for E-tailers, investment banks, and consumer magazines, including Webby-award winners Thrive and BabyCenter. Working in San Francisco since 1995, he has managed front-end template development and integration in a variety of publishing environments and in an alphabet soup of programming languages.
As Primatial's technology lead, Bjorn inhabits the professional space between engineering and design, acting both as information strategist and
template author.
An honors graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Bjorn also enjoys reinventing thrift-store furniture as objects d'art. He is a rabid fan of the San Francisco Giants.
