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Hi, I'm Susan — professional graphic designer & illustrator.

I've been drawing and painting almost as long as I've been breathing. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art (now Alberta University of the Arts) with a diploma in painting, I was also fortunate enough to study drawing and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. I then took a 15-year detour through Alberta's tourism industry, working in marketing and project management (designing on the side) and seeing much of our beautiful world.

In 2007 I returned to my hometown of Calgary, earned a Master Design certificate from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) — and have been working and creating as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator ever since.

When I'm not at the computer, I can be found getting paint under my fingernails, digging up vegetables in the backyard or exploring new trails with a smiling dog.

Let's work together.

Do you need a creative, collaborative, experienced and reliable graphic designer? One of a kind illustrations to make your project sing?

Give me a call or send a note — I'd love to hear from you.

Select Clients

Burke Group

Canadian Senior Motorcyclists

Colborne Street Gallery

Compass Health & Wellness

Cowan Graphics

The Doghouse, Banff

Edmonton Destination Marketing Hotels

Explore Edmonton

Fairmont Palliser

Home By Tim + Chris

Hose & Hound Pub

Jasper SkyTram

Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre

Marmot Basin

MasterBUILT Hotels

The Pig & Whistle Pub

Pursuit

Topline Printing

Tourism Jasper

Travel Alberta

aka the independent creative studio of Susan Stephen: freelance graphic designer & illustrator, painter and maker of various things.

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