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Karen Craig
Karen Craig has been designing and illustrating for children for over fifteen
years.
After a BFA from Syracuse University, her first job was to conceptualize,
design and illustrate reading incentives and educational materials for children
of all ages for the Upstart Company, now owned by Highsmith, Inc.
Following several years of coming up with a myriad of ways to say "Love Your
Library," Karen went back to school, this time for BFA in Toy Design from The
Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she graduated with
honors.
Her degree in Toy Design led her to a job with Nickelodeon Consumer
Products, where she was a senior designer for seven years, learning the many
facets of working within the realm of licensed brands, products and
properties. While at Nickelodeon, Karen had the opportunity to work as senior
concept designer on various liaisons with Nickelodeon branding partners
such as Kraft Foods, Ford Motors and FAO Schwarz. She was also very much
involved with the Nick Jr., property, "Blue's Clues." Her Blue's Clues Style
Guide won a Broadcast Design Award gold medal. Karen has also illustrated
over 25 Blue's Clues licensed books for various publishers since the late
1990's.
Surface pattern design is one of Karen's favorite types of projects. Some of
her pattern work can be found on various Nickelodeon products such as The
Fairly Odd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, Blue's Room and The Rugrats packaging.
She has also created pattern art for licensed properties such as Olivia (the pig)
for Chorion-Silver Lining and Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies, for National
Geographic Kids.
Karen enjoys the field of book arts and creates "artist books" of all
kinds.Trying her hand at commercial concept/board book design, Karen's
cloth book concept "Play Pockets" was published by Innovative KIDS in 2006.
She is also a big fan of pop-ups. The Museum of Modern Art recently
published one of her pop-card designs for their 2007 Holiday line. A second
design is scheduled for 2008 publication.
Karen is currently developing several picture book ideas, although she has yet
to seek out a publisher.
Recent CLIENT LIST includes:
Peaceable Kindom Press, Weekly Reader, Playmore Books, Babalu Inc., Simon
& Schuster, Nickelodeon, Bookworks, LLC, Chorion-Silver Lining, Schylling
Toys and National Geographic Kids.
Member SCBWI
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