About

My name is Megan Butzin

I'm a graphic designer, photographer, artist living in rural Minnesota. I enjoy running around in the outdoors taking photos in almost all weather conditions. I also have fun trying illustration and other traditional art forms and a little digital work. I make lots of my own products (Planners, notebooks, coloring books, etc.) in my small business.

Graphic Design Work experience

Freelance

2005-present

Graphic Designer/Photographer

• Duties: Flyer, Senior Portraits, Book Cover artwork, Business Cards, Newspaper Advertisements, Invitations, Programs, Customer Service, CD label Design & Booklet, DVD Label & booklet, social media updates (twitter, facebook), videos weekly basis, disc bound planners & books, gifs (animated graphics), stickers, order forms and a lot more.

Graphic Designer/ Website Administrator

11/2006 - 6/2019

Montevideo Publishing Company

• Duties: Designing newspaper advertisements, pagination of pages, typesetting/formatting of articles, updating of web site daily along with social media posts on twitter and facebook, videos each week, archiving/backing up of newspaper documents/photos, creating forms, some customer service.

Graphic Design Intern

04/2006 - 07/2006

Prairie’s Edge Casino Resort

• Duties: Create ads for newspapers, business cards, signs, posters, banners, filing papers, update of company web site, in-house printing, brochures, menus, power point presentations, stickers, event tags, table tents, fax covers, post cards, and more.

Education

Ridgewater College

2101 15 Ave. NW, Willmar, MN

Computer Arts and Publishing

• Courses: Computer Graphics 1 and 2, Desktop Publishing 1 and 2, Printing Processes, Multimedia Presentations, Layout and Design 1 and 2, Basic Photography, Technical Writing, Digital Imaging, Applied Math, PC/Mac, Employment Prep

• Programs worked with: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Streamline, Quark Express, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Typestyler, Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word.