AAF Nebraska Professional Development Luncheon
Meet the Pros
Keynote Speaker Karen Torok, Illustrator
Friday, March 4, 2022
11:30 AM
AAF Nebraska Member $25 | Non-Member Guests $30
Karen Torok gets REAL about being a one-person creative team for a startup
cookie company. She’ll discuss the process of using her illustration, design and art direction skills to create the complete look from logo to packaging to marketing materials.
BIO: Karen Torok Design and Illustration
Karen Torok is an Illustrator, Designer and Creative Director who has worked with a wide variety of clients during her 25 years in the publishing, surface pattern and advertising industries. She graduated from Ohio University with a BFA in Visual Communications. Before starting her own design and illustration business, Karen gained experience as an Art Director and Photo Stylist in Cleveland, Ohio and as a Photo Researcher and Art Director for a stock photography company in Los Angeles, California. Although she enjoys seeing whole projects through from start to finish, she is most passionate about the beginning process of idea formation and sketching concepts. Her client list includes American Girl Inc., Briarwood Lane, Custom Decor Inc., EK Success, Fisher-Price, Flomo, Flower Girl World, Hanes, Highlights, International Playthings, Mattel, Parragon Books, Pearson Learning, PepsiCo., Random House, Real Foods, Scholastic, Spin Master, Sterling Publishing, and Working Mother Magazine. In her free time, Karen enjoys playing her vintage Pearl drum kit and cajon and loves exploring new techniques with her art supply collection. Currently, she is working towards having her personal creative work displayed in Lincoln and Omaha galleries.
karentorok.com
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