Freelance Graphic Designer

Creative & Design

Environmentally driven, and design focused.

I am a graphic design and environmental design graduate with my BFA from Champlain College and my MSE from Iowa State University. Upon graduating from ISU, I relocated to Colorado for an internship with Watson University in Boulder. Since completing my internship I accepted my current position as a graphic designer in the greater Denver area with a high end appliance showroom as their graphic designer and creative assistant.

I started in high school with a strong emphasis in graphic design and film and digital photography taking all AP classes for art and ranking a 4/5 and a 5/5 on my two portfolios. This love of art and creation led me to Champlain college in Burlington Vermont for graphic design. My emphasis for my undergrad delved into more technical aspect of design such as publication and package design.

My undergrad thesis in sustainable living with design prompted my new exploration into nature, sustainability, and environmental design. This interested pushed me to continue my educated in the field of environmental design and sustainability at Iowa state university. I finished my Masters degree with two complete thesis's, one in plastic hazard mitigation predominantly in the oceans and focusing on the beaches for the micro plastics with designed platforms, educational buildings, and a system to collect the waste and turn it back into energy.

While the second masters thesis was in interior design and how does one make a space "sustainable" and what elements are needed for such an implementation and the limits or impacts it then has on practical design.

Design Passions (Signage / Logo / Branding, product design, graphics and illustrations, publication design, and sustainability incorporated into everyday design)

Photography: Both digital and Print with experience with darkrooms.

Short freelance projects for individuals and organization working on graphics, marketing materials, social media, logo's and email blast.


 Graphic Designer for 3 high-end Kitchen Design Showrooms
- Social Media Coordinator: Instagram, Website and Facebook
- Event and Showroom Photographer
- Marketing & Graphic Design responsibilities for company newsletter and calendars, Point of Purchase, event printed designs
- Front Office duties include: Customer Service, processing credit & invoices, greeting customers

Creative Assistant /Graphic Design

Floor sales lead, customer service
-Creative/Graphic Design: Signage/POP designs for the store and special events
-Aided customers in decision process with extensive knowledge of geology


Sales Associate

-Meeting with the department heads to discuss the project(s) requirements and work flow, while setting each project's deadline
-Overseeing a group of 10 students and delivering weekly feedback
-Designing and developing marketing material and their social media
-Developing templates for students to use

Graphic Design Intern

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Tana Blazek: Freelance Graphic Designer in Thornton, CO

Tana Blazek

Champlain College

Iowa State University