Kitiya Palaskas is an Australian craft-based designer, author, content creator, and public speaker. She specialises in prop and installation design, styling, art direction, creative workshop facilitation and DIY project production, where she focuses on incorporating handmade techniques and traditional craft methods re-imagined in contemporary ways. Her clients have included Warner Music, Lego, Peter Alexander, Sportsgirl, Frankie Magazine, My Little Pony, Swatch, Splendour in the Grass and Lily Allen, among others, and she is the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book available in Australia, the UK and the USA. Alongside her design work, Kitiya is also an advocate for encouraging open dialogue around wellbeing issues facing creative people via her online project Real Talk.