Mikaela Karthik Design is a Berkeley-based mural art and placemaking studio founded by Mikaela Bernhardt. She specializes in site-specific murals and hand-painted signage for commercial and residential boutique destinations. Her goal is simple: to make spaces into places; she designs to elevate atmosphere, strengthen brand identity, and celebrate community identity. With a degree in Landscape Architecture and a background working on BART stations, school campuses, public parks, and large-scale commercial developments, she approaches every wall the way an architectural design professional approaches a space: analyzing scale, light, long term maintenance, circulation, and how people experience space to name a few. As a bay area native with roots in Berkeley and Chennai, India, Mikaela approaches every project with an openness to what makes each person, brand, and community uniquely themselves. She blends creativity and professional structure into graphic work that feels unmistakably yours. Besides large scale murals, other services also include custom commissions, simple branded logo lettering on your wall space, art licensing, and community-based art activities.