Karen Gubler

Graphic Designer with nearly a decade of experience across brand identity, production design, marketing, print, apparel, environmental graphics, and experiential design. Comfortable taking a project from a clear creative brief or a rough idea all the way to polished, production-ready artwork. Known for taking on challenging projects, managing competing deadlines, and working well with clients, creative teams, sales, and production.

Adaptable, dependable, enthusiastic, and genuinely invested in doing great work and being a great person to work with.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER at MegaPro Screenprinting & Embroidery (2017-04 – 2025-12)

• Manage 10–40 active projects per week, balancing deadlines, client revisions, production needs, and rush work while keeping projects moving on schedule.
• Create original logos, apparel graphics, promotional materials, and branded collateral, working from initial research and concepts through client revisions and final artwork.
• Turn low-resolution and often unusable source files into clean, scalable vector artwork. Projects regularly begin with raster images, photographs, old graphics, or artwork that needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
• Prepare files for screen printing and DTF production, with hands-on experience in spot-color separations, Pantone matching, sizing, file setup, and print quality.
• Work closely with clients who need original artwork, extra revisions, or more hands-on creative support. Several of these relationships have lasted for years, with designs still being reordered and produced.
• Fill in for the Production Manager when needed, checking production readiness for work from 2–3 other designers and scheduling jobs based on deadlines, available capacity, and incoming rush orders.
• Help keep Sales, Art, and Production on the same page by catching missing information, clarifying project requirements, and resolving artwork issues before they reach production.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER at Paparazzi Accessories (2021-04 – 2021-12)

• Worked as part of the in-house marketing and creative team on print, merchandise, corporate events, environmental graphics, and other branded materials.
• For the company's annual convention at the MGM Convention Center, created wayfinding signage, step-and-repeat backdrops, floor and window graphics, apparel, lanyards, pins, buttons, and other attendee touchpoints as part of the larger creative team.
• Developed a dimensional invitation for a TopGolf event featuring a metal event insert, artificial turf, branded golf ball and tee, and custom packaging.
• Designed a professionally printed and bound company recognition book for organization-wide distribution, using Adobe InDesign to create the publication's visual presentation and page layouts.
• Took projects beyond the design stage when necessary, finding outside vendors and working through production requirements to turn unusual creative concepts into finished pieces.

Bachelor of Science in Art — Graphic Design Emphasis – Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State University) (2015 – 2015)