As early as age fifteen Karen was a self-taught artist who explored many different mediums from playing and writing music, and filling sketch pads with drawings, to making stained glass windows and painting. Eclectic by nature, one interest was not enough.

She was influenced early on by her mother Gloria MacLeod, Dalhousie/NSCAD alumni and art teacher in Halifax, who supplied her with canvases, paints and paintbrushes, and suggested she give it a try!

With a background in finance and marketing, and lots of customer service training, Karen has spent many a day in boardrooms wishing she was designing forms, instead of filling them out. Finally she decided to combine her business background with her love of art and design, and make a full time career out of it. Since then she has completed her Design Degree at NSCAD, formed Karen Gaudet Graphic Design and paints from her home studio. Her paintings can be found at Secord Gallery, Seeds Gallery and Art Sales & Rentals Gallery at The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Karen's design style is minimalist and simple. Her design philosophy? Less is more. She has designed many logos, and marketing pieces for small and developing businesses as well as large corporations. Several of her larger scale productions include event materials designed for several events held by The Cobequid Community Health Centre, namely The Annual Appeal and The Annual Valentine Gala. Another large scale production includes all of the materials for the bridal show at The Casino Halifax entitled The Forever Yours Bridal Show put on by Weddings Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada Weddings. She loves to learn, loves to do new things, thrives on change and continually keeps herself updated on the latest technology in the ever-changing environment of design.

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AMANDA BENT ASSISTANT DESIGNER AND LIFESAVER

Amanda resides in Truro, Nova Scotia and works full time outside the home and part time/casual, remotely from her home. This being one of several of her jobs.

She graduated in Cartography/Digital Mapping at the College of Geographic Sciences, and from there her love for design grew. She is self taught in many arts such as oil painting, graphic design and jewelry making. Because of her numerous years in the cartography industry, Amanda is as creative as she is technical. She understands that these two skills combined can create the perfect logo, ring, painting, map, pillow design, etc.

Casual and friendly, she brings to the table a unique, lovely and free-spirited sense of design which only gets better as time goes on.

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APRIL BAIRD JUNIOR FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

April is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She works from her home office doing freelance graphic design, illustrating, painting, and jewelery making. She was influenced early on by comics and cartoons. After years of imitating her favorite illustrative artists, she was recognized as being something more than just a regular kid drawing cartoons and the seed was planted for a career in design and illustration.

April is a graduate of Animation at NSCC and Graphic Design at Holland College and has a distinctive illustrative style. We look forward to continued success in working with April.

We're a small group of big hearted individuals with a flair for creativity, and a passion for visual communication. We work as a support structure for each other, offering inspiration and constructive criticism, while drawing on each individuals strengths.

Our extended team is comprised of other associates and individuals who are called upon when needed to perform other services related to the development and success of our projects.

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OPPORTUNITIES

We're always looking to add to our team of freelancers and associates. Following are application terms.

Please issue your resume, CV, portfolio or website via email. Be sure to state whether your strength and interest is web design or print design.

Web designers must have at least one year of experience and live website samples to provide.

Basic Requirements:

- licensed design software- preferably Adobe CS3 (but not mandatory)

- ability work on your own, from your home, as well as together from time to time

- available to attend meetings to discuss projects

- ability to give and receive constructive criticism

- expect pay for each individual project completed

- ability to provide and have an understanding of vector graphics

- good editing skills would be an asset

- ability to pay close attention to detail and instruction is a must

- and of course, a deep love of design!

Please forward your resume along with your portfolio, website, or CV (just one of these, which ever you have that best shows your work) by email.

Only multi-page documents will be acceptable if you're sending a PDF. A multitude of individual documents won't be reviewed.

Thanks in advance for your interest! And best of luck in a successful design career.

If you've applied before, and your work/portfolio has improved or grown since them, don't hesitate to re-apply. Persistence is a virtue, stalking is not.

Due to the high volume of applications, only applicants of interest will be contacted.

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