Kat Wong
Founder
About
Founder of Oh Yeah and a consultant and mentor working with creative teams. Her background includes production companies, BBC Radio and Apple.
SourceIn their own words
Reflect on how comparison, the annoying bedfellow to expectation, is causing this conflict between freedom and your past success.
Many studios will be more open to taking on a remote freelancer long before they’ll commit to sponsoring someone they’ve never worked with before.
Artistic creation is not selfish.
This is very different from being tone deaf and not understanding our own privileges when it comes to expressing our work.
Engineering and creativity are not mutually exclusive. In fact, collaborations between the two are essential in so many industries.
Plenty of artists and professional creatives go by their first name – while their legal name stays exactly as is on contracts and invoices.
It’s about branding consistently, plus building recognition at all touch points. It’s a logo at the end of the day.
But maybe we simply need to remind each other to do what’s right, rather than what technology is capable of.
Here’s been the constant: giving myself permission to explore, experiment, and not to be defined by other people’s success.
At 28, you are absolutely not too old for this industry.
Articles & interviews17
- Kat Wong advises creatives to define career ‘why’
In this weekly Creative Career Conundrums advice column, Oh Yeah founder Kat Wong addresses a graphic-design graduate's anxiety about sustaining a high-achiever identity in professional life. Wong recommends defining the personal motivation behind career ambitions, questioning comparison and sunk-cost thinking, and considering a more varied multidisciplinary path where creative freedom matters more than status.
- Remote work advised as first step to jobs abroad
In this Creative Career Conundrums advice column, Oh Yeah founder Kat Wong responds to an independent graphic designer in Mumbai seeking work in Europe. Wong recommends beginning with remote freelance work to establish trust with overseas studios, while exploring self-sponsored freelance visas such as Germany’s Freiberufler visa or pursuing an EU Master’s degree to build a local network.
- PAPA TOM Crafts Raw, Imperfect Identity for Wildling Spritzer
In an installment of If You Could's Creative Career Conundrums, Oh Yeah founder Kat Wong advises creatives experiencing guilt and paralysis amid war, genocide and ecological destruction. Wong argues that making art is not inherently selfish, encouraging experimentation with more sustainable forms of expression that can foster connection, challenge the status quo and counter despair.