Freelance Graphic Designer
Designs that make your brand impossible to ignore.
Logos, signage, print, and vinyl for businesses that need to look the part — from first sketch to press-ready file.
Carmen Doner Gem Designs
Services
Everything your brand puts in front of people.
Logos & brand identity
Memorable marks and the full system around them — color, type, and rules that keep it consistent.
Storefront & yard signs
Built to be read fast and from a distance — the opposite problem from a business card.
Decals & vehicle graphics
Window lettering, truck doors, and stickers — artwork prepped with clean contour paths for the cutter.
Business cards
The one piece of print people actually keep. Built with bleed, trim, and stock in mind.
What I make
Print · Signage
Identity · Apparel
Billboards & banners
Artwork that stays sharp blown up, carrying a message that lands in three seconds at speed.
Brochures, flyers & posters
Layouts that organize a lot of information without looking crowded, folded and paneled correctly.
T-shirts & team merch
Event and crew apparel, separated and sized correctly for screen print or heat transfer.
Stationery & invitations
Letterhead, cards, and invitation suites for weddings, showers, and events.
Not sure which one you need? Tell me what you're trying to get in front of people and I'll tell you what it should be printed on.
Start a projectSample work
Concept pieces, built like real jobs.
Gem Designs is new, so these are samples rather than client work — but each one is a finished, press-ready file, not a mockup. Client projects get added here as they ship.
Want something like this for your business? Tell me what you're working on and I'll walk you through how the project comes together.
Start a project
Adobe certified
About
Hi, I'm Carmen.
I'm a graphic designer in South Central Pennsylvania. Before I started Gem Designs, I worked the production side of commercial printing at Navitor East — which means I've seen what happens to a design after the designer hands it off.
That's the part most people never think about. A logo that looks sharp on a screen can fall apart when it gets cut from vinyl, blown up on a billboard, or separated for screen print. Knowing the difference ahead of time is most of the job.
So I build files that hold up. Correct bleed, real trim marks, artwork sized for the process it's actually going through. You get something a print shop can run without calling you back with questions.
- Experience
- Navitor East — commercial printing Production side: prepress, files, and what actually runs
- Certified
- Adobe InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop Plus two Visual Design certifications
- Trained at
- Franklin County Career & Technology Center Design, print production, and document management
- Strengths
- Color theory, typography & print production From concept development through final delivery
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
Colossians 3:17 — the foundation verse of my business