About DEBORAH

Deborah Kehoe is an accomplished professional designer and educator. With over 40 years of experience, she brings ingenuity and merit to her clients. Throughout her career, she has developed the ability to hone in on a customer’s needs to craft excellence and build brand awareness. She is known for her creative problem solving, strong design and production skills, along with quality customer service.

Deborah has a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts. Along with studying design, she always continued her life-long passion of painting. Growing up in Vermont, it was fortuitous that she found this exceptional school in Philadelphia, an outgrowth of the design program from Basel, Switzerland. Having studied with some of the worlds best design educators in design, thank you Hans Alleman, Ken Heibert, Chris Zelinsky, Bill Longhauser, and David Gibson for giving me the gift of Seeing. Deborah excelled in her studies of design, color and typography. And lastly, thank you to Warren Rohrer for being an incredible Painting Professor supporting me in following my passion and encouraging me to paint big! 

Starting her career in Boston, she worked for some of the most reputable designers and design firms. She handled such accounts as Raytheon, Harvard Art Museums, and worked on supporting many shows at WGBH/PBS Boston. Much of her time was focused on branding, along with designing books and publications, for museums. She also concentrated on creating signature annual reports for Corporate 100 accounts.

Since then, Deborah taught design from 1981 to 2024. She has taught at The Art Institute of Boston, Clark University, Rhode Island School of Design and Saint Michael's College. She has been teaching design, drawing and painting as a design professor at Champlain College in the Visual Communication Division from 2009 to 2024.  

Over the years, she has helped many corporate, small businesses and non-profit organizations with their communication design needs as well as helped many start-up companies establish a niche and grow their businesses substantially. Her client groups are quite diverse, serving clients in: Education, Healthcare, Software, Retail, Publishing, Banking, Architecture, Engineering and many others.

A native Vermonter, she returned to Vermont and formed Kehoe + Kehoe Design Associates, Inc. in 1990 with her brother David. Since then, she created and led her design team in developing award-winning graphic design solutions for strategic marketing and communications projects including branding, promotional literature, advertising materials, displays, packaging, websites and branded environments.

In 2020, she changed the business name to Deborah Kehoe Design. She continues to work with her clients on building and extending their brands working across all mediums.

In her free time, she follows her passion of gardening, cooking and painting landscapes. Deborah is a plein-air painter and has studied with Susan Abbott over the past eight years.