Hello, and thank you for visiting.

I’m Karen Steenekamp, Freelance Graphic Designer. Based in Boulder County, Colorado, I serve all businesses within the United States — including startups, non-profits, agencies, and marketing professionals.

Be it branding, logo design, package design, print design, or digital advertising, I help businesses and startups gain and sustain recognition and trust — to prompt a loyal following in today’s busy marketplace.

With decades of experience, I offer an array of design services for your specific needs:

My relationship style:

I partner with approachable professionals who understand the prerequisites of free-spoken collaboration that promote thinking, listening, and learning while applying your list of essentials to each project. If your style is similar, I’m ready to deliver meaningful and measurable success for your company and customers.

What my clients say:

I love working with Karen, she has been doing work for me for over 10 years and is always the best! — Jon Boring, President, Social Spice Media (Camarillo, California)
Our company has worked with Karen for years. She is always professional and easy to work with and offers a quick turnaround and great design output. We’re always so impressed with her work. She is our go-to for anything design! — Alex Faubel, Marketing, ICAT (Broomfield, Colorado)
To simply give Karen five stars feels insufficient. She has been invaluable in helping the small business I work for grow. She listens to (and learns to appropriately anticipate) our needs, she responds efficiently, and she is truly pleasant to work with. Not to mention, she delivers an excellent product! — Kara Caputo, Marketing Director, ABC Kids Climbing (Boulder, Colorado)
We have been doing business with Karen Steenekamp and Open Design for over a decade. Karen created our company’s image and has revamped it several times. Karen is a consummate professional and an expert in her field. She is a visionary and is endlessly creative. She is open to feedback, always goes back to the drawing board to make us happy, and has always been fair and upfront in her billing. I look forward to another 10 years. — Shannon Roberts, Psychotherapist (Santa Rosa, California)
Karen at Open Design is an amazingly gifted and creative graphic design artist. We went to Karen to design the packaging for three new retail products, and she took us seamlessly from step one all the way to production. I don’t know how we would have done it without her. She also did all the design work for our trade show booth, and we had the best looking booth at the show! Not only is Karen an amazing design artist, but she is also an amazing person and wonderful to work with. Always patient and communicative. I wish I could give more than 5 stars. — Doug Meier, President, Vejje Foods (Golden, Colorado)
We have been working with Karen for years. She has a depth of experience in graphic design that can’t be beaten. Her flare has made our education materials more colorful and professional. We highly recommend her! — Dr. Susan Bonfield, Executive Director, Environment of the Americas (Boulder, Colorado)
I’ve worked with Karen on and off for almost 20 years. I keep engaging her on projects both big and small because of her creativity, ease, and speed of working with her, and her ability and desire to do great and lasting work. She’s got a firm grasp on all the ‘theoretical’ elements of graphic design as well as a practical eye towards what will work in the market. Highly Recommended. — Joe Beauprez, Marketing (Denver, Colorado)
I rarely give a review besides clicking on the star ratings, but I can honestly say my experience with Karen at Open designs is five stars. For the last 6 years, we have worked with Karen who is an absolute pleasure to work with and delivers a top-notch product in a timely manner at a competitive price. Karen takes the time to hear exactly what we want and gives suggestions as needed. I try to work with small, locally owned and operated companies, and Karen reinforces to me why that is so valuable. — Karla Lankford, Director, ABC Kids Climbing (Boulder, Colorado)
Karen is a very talented graphic artist—her delightful personality and astute business acumen make her a highly valued partner for our company. I managed many large marketing projects at a Fortune 100 company with in-house and outside agencies, and Open Design produces digital/print materials and branding that is second-to-none. I rarely write reviews, but this is one endorsement about which I am highly confident—you will not be disappointed! — Jeff Benton, President, ZOO Fans (Boulder, Colorado)
We have worked with Karen since the launch of our small business several years ago. She helped us with our branding and packaging and we’ve continued to reach out to her for help with many projects. We have had rave reviews of our packaging and branding from buyers and customers! Karen is responsive, highly creative and easy to work with. She is an integral partner to our business! — Caryn Staebler, President, Think.Eat.Live. (Wildwood, Missouri)

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Hello, and thank you for visiting.

I’m Karen Steenekamp, Freelance Graphic Designer. Based in Boulder County, Colorado, I serve all businesses within the United States — including startups, non-profits, agencies, and marketing professionals.

Be it branding, logo design, package design, print design, or digital advertising, I help businesses and startups gain and sustain recognition and trust — to prompt a loyal following in today’s busy marketplace.

With decades of experience, I offer an array of design services for your specific needs:

Package Design

Print Design

Logo Design

Digital Design

My relationship style:

What my clients say:

I love working with Karen, she has been doing work for me for over 10 years and is always the best! — Jon Boring, President, Social Spice Media (Camarillo, California)

Our company has worked with Karen for years. She is always professional and easy to work with and offers a quick turnaround and great design output. We’re always so impressed with her work. She is our go-to for anything design! — Alex Faubel, Marketing, ICAT (Broomfield, Colorado)

Let’s get in touch.