Karen Daves: Freelance Graphic Designer in Simi Valley, CA

Freelance design work done for companies including Tiny Trucker, Wendylou Accessories, Taco Mafia, Deckers Outdoor, HomeSchool Magazine, and Kim Designs. Work included mocking up artwork designing linesheets, design of various styles of menus, internal training materials, marketing mailers, book ads, and surface pattern designs.

Design business cards, invites, brochures, flyers, proposals & envelopes; and then print them out on Xerox printer using Fiery. Made changes to current designs as well as starting from concept to completion - designed a 132 pg proposal for Classic Parking. Graphic Designer

Worked as contract employee designing various sales sheets, direct mail pieces, and business cards; also prepped files for Xmpie; made revisions to numerous sell sheets, flyers, direct mail pieces and business cards. Designed artwork for Duke of Oil and Mama Gina's Pizza cards.

In charge of designing direct mail pieces & one-time mailers for car dealerships, designed all the GM pieces to be compliant so they would meet GM's rules & regulations, designed new cards for Duke of Oil & also helped out with the design of business cards.

Designed packaging for various items and sell sheets for products.

Setting up and printing labels on Kiaro label machine, taking product photos for website, masking images & prepping for web placement, updating website, designing virtuals for clients, and working on catalogs.

Design of repeat patterns, sales sheets & product matrix, ads & signage for tradeshows, & banner ads for website; resized web images, revamped all product packaging & worked with dielines. Designed visual trays & POP displays for Target, Walmart & Best Buy & worked on sales presentations.

Make and print out various shipping labels, design accessory spreadsheets using Excel, code and label new samples, place artwork into templates for Forever 21 and design artwork for new products.

In charge of both digital and print book cover design and layout for all curriculum and reference materials produced for professional development for librarians in secondary education, higher education, and public libraries. Oversaw production from initial design concept through final product of all company marketing materials, product catalogs, print and web advertisements and author flyers. Coordinated production of all tradeshow graphics, and assisted with revising and updating website.

Design, layout, and production of marketing materials including sell sheets, brochures, direct mail pieces, advertisements, invitations, product catalogs, and tradeshow graphics. Managed budget and schedule on multiple critical projects with changing deadlines.

Led design and resizing of artwork for promotional sports water bottles for large corporation's marketing departments for nationwide marathons and triathlons; including Ironman, Nike, TYR, Specialized and Giant. https://www.behance.net/kd4design