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Karen Steenekamp, Freelance Graphic Designer + Production Artist

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Karen Steenekamp is an accomplished graphic designer and prepress production artist. While her specialty is logo design her passions are CPG package design and print design.

Karen’s dedication to her career adheres to her objective to stay sharp and creative. She is an ongoing student at the School of Visual Arts (NYC) continuing education program. The 2022 summer curriculum is an advertising course that stimulates visual thinking for rational and emotional messaging.

When not designing, Karen enjoys spending time with her husband and two mini-schnauzers. Her other loves are fitness, board sports (snow, wake, paddle), DIY home projects, gardening, collecting fine art, flexitarian cooking, summertime, and gourmet cupcakes.

Education and Training:

Wesleyan University: Pre-College Fine Arts

Paier College of Art: Fine Art, Art History, Graphic Design

Sacred Heart University: Graphic Design, Liberal Arts

Connecticut Institute of Arts: Adobe Software

Denver Art Museum: Fine Art Watercolors

Boulder Digital Arts: WordPress Beginners Bootcamp

School of Visual Arts NYC: ongoing design academics

Services and Capabilities

Graphic Design: brand development, logo design, CPG packaging (food, beverage, supplement), advertisements, sell sheets, spec sheets, FSCIs, coupons, POP displays, brochures, signage, tradeshow booths, web banners, social media graphics, and other communication media, including resizing and reformatting imagery

Prepress Production: proficient in all printing methods, including offset, digital, flexo, and screen | ink specification for 4-color process, Pantone, special color inks, spot/flood varnishes | a complete understanding of die lines for flat, folded, and 3D materials | FDA labeling and nutrition literate (food, beverage, supplement)

Technical: fluent in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Dropbox, Google, Asana | familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and some WordPress | Mac platform

Additional Services: copywriting (tagline, headline, romance) and copy editing


LOGO DESIGN 100 %
CPG PACKAGE DESIGN - FOOD, BEVERAGE, SUPPLEMENTS 100 %
FDA LABELING AND NUTRITION LITERATE 100 %
PRINT DESIGN - ANY TYPE, SIZE, SUBSTRATE 100 %
LARGE FORMAT GRAPHICS - POP DISPLAYS, TRADE SHOW 100 %
DIGITAL DESIGN - WEB GRAPHICS, BANNER ADS, SOCIAL MEDIA 100 %
FILE PRODUCTION - PREPRESS/PRINT, DIGITAL/ONLINE 100 %
PRESS CHECKS 100 %
PHOTOSHOOTS - FOOD, BEVERAGE, PRODUCT 100 %
WRITING - HEADLINE, TAGLINE, ROMANCE, EDITING 100 %

Availability: remote, ready, and at your side — Monday – Friday, 8 am – 6 pm (mountain time)

Confidentiality for ad agencies, marketing professionals, and recruiters:

Open Design, LLC, is legally bound to signed agreements (NDAs and NCAs); therefore, Karen will never display agency* work on Open Design’s website or portfolio, nor disclose the agencies or agency clients. All design work featured on this website is created by Karen Steenekamp and designed for Open Design’s clients — with no agency involvement.

*Agency refers to all businesses with signed NDA and NCA agreements.

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KAREN’S FAVORITE QUOTE

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.”

— Albert Einstein

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