Meet Kate Pibernik: The Story Behind the Brand

Kate’s journey into branding and creativity has never followed a straight line — it has always been about curiosity, experimentation, and the courage to pivot when something no longer felt right.

The First Wins

By the age of nine, Kate was already experimenting with websites on platforms like Blogspot and Weebly, piecing together her first digital spaces. At 11, she entered a local competition to promote recycling in Basingstoke, and her design won. Her artwork was displayed on lorries across town, inspiring the community with the message “Recycling is Fun.” That early recognition planted a seed: creativity could influence people and make change feel joyful.

From Copywriting to Publishing

While still at secondary school, Kate began taking on copywriting projects. In Year 11, around the age of 14 or 15, she started helping non-native English speakers refine their dissertations for university, and earned her first payments via Fiverr. Quickly realising the platform’s steep commissions, she branched out independently and secured her first steady client, Darren, who ran a conspiracy theory news site.

At just 16, Kate was juggling school, caring for an elderly man with Parkinson’s, and ghostwriting Darren’s book — a sprawling collection of conspiracy theories through the years. It wasn’t work she personally believed in, but it gave her invaluable experience in editing, structure and voice.

From there, she expanded into self-publishing, using Amazon Books to publish five or six titles for small authors. That led to her founding **Yellow Scribe**, a book publishing service designed to give aspiring writers with small budgets a way to get their work out into the world. It was her first official business — and though it taught her an enormous amount, she knew she hadn’t quite landed on her true calling.

Finding the Right Medium

After a break, Kate returned with a new direction: branding and photography. Writing had sharpened her communication and storytelling, but visual work was her real passion. The hands-on, practical side of creating — colours, images, design, mood — was what lit her up. Photography gave her a way to combine everything: the strategic clarity of branding with the emotive power of images.

K8Ball Media Today

Now at the helm of K8Ball Media, Kate offers more than photography or branding in isolation. She offers a partnership. Her clients come to her not just for logos or headshots, but for a creative environment where they feel safe, comfortable and celebrated. She captures them in ways that feel authentic, while building brand identities that actually work in the real world.

Her path has included recycling campaigns, ghostwritten conspiracy books, publishing start-ups, and countless websites — and each step has added another layer to her skill set. Today, through K8Ball Media, she stands as a creative who understands story from every angle: written, visual, strategic and personal.