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Home KIMBERLY MCKEAN

NICE TO MEET YOU!

I’m Kimberly, an Italian-American Creative Director based in Padua, Italy, and the founder of Fenomeno Studio, a creative practice dedicated to urban culture, experiential tourism, visual storytelling, and the art of noticing.

My work begins with exploration. I design creative walking experiences, urban missions, educational tools, and tourism concepts that encourage people to see places differently. Through flânerie, psychogeography, and observation-based practices, I create experiences that transform ordinary streets into spaces of discovery.

Alongside my work as a creative director, I develop visual identities, editorial projects, and cultural initiatives inspired by cities, overlooked details, and the hidden narratives embedded in everyday environments.

Padua is my headquarters. The world is my fieldwork.✨

I mainly work at these three categories:

I work across multiple disciplines, all connected by a common thread: transforming the way people see and experience places. I do this through creative direction, urban exploration, and editorial storytelling—sometimes all three at once.

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Flânerie tour series

Flânerie tours, urban drifting, playful exploration, and guided walks.

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Sidewalk Safari + Podcast

Urban exploration, flânerie, psychogeography, and games to play in the OUTernet.

Translation in English coming soon

Coming Soon
Behance portfolio

I often do some freelance illustrations for awesome clients.

Visit my portfolio
SIDE PROJECTS

Embracing local surroundings

I live in an area full of amazing things to explore, most of them with profound histories, others hide forgotten curiosities, some keep their little mysteries. Never ending ideas to illustrate and many vicissitudes and affairs to collect through the simplicity of an everyday journey.

Hope you may find this perspectively contagious.

Topics I enjoy developing

Creative Wanderer – Brand related
Habitat escapades – Art scavenges, searching inspiration
Coffee bar exploration – For coffee lovers
Dark tourism – Discovering oddities
Visit the Wanderblog
Latest Posts
Seeking inspiration in everyday life
Creative missions
In the introductory post dedicated to Sidewalk Safari ©, I illustrated three safari styles that...
A guide to Sidewalk Safari
Sidewalk safari© is a city excursion with the objective of spotting places, buildings, curiosities and...
Coffee bar exploration
Italians don’t take coffee on the go. Only recently globalization has influenced traditional behaviors, introducing new...
CHALLENGING CREATIVITY
REDISCOVERING YOUR CREATIVE MIND. Believing that creativity is just talent is a common misconception. It’s...
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