Meet Bethany

Bethany Mennecke is a Minnesota-based graphic designer who has experience designing publication layouts, branding, logos, presentation layouts, marketing materials, motion graphics, and more She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design, and a certificate in American Sign Language (ASL). She is currently employed at Plastic Printers in Hastings, MN, a small company with servicing internationally, where she designs all sorts of printed materials, including but not limited to custom gift cards, key tags, luggage tags and badges, and so many more. Basically, if it can be printed on a card, she designs it!

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Some of her previous work includes leading a team of graphic designers as Art Director of arts and literature publication NOTA, and has also designed the print publication Barstow and Grand for the past two years. She has also worked as a graphic designer for National Presto Industries, UW-Eau Claire's Housing and Residence Life, Eau Claire Jazz Inc., and W.D. McIntyre Library. 

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In her spare time, she enjoys designing stickers, art prints, notepads, and buttons, as well as creating intricate clay earrings for her Etsy shop, The Cuttlefish Corner—which she runs with her sister (and her cat, Cuttlefish). She also enjoy hands-on activities such as painting, card making, and fine-needle crafting, with her most recent interest being crochet. Bethany has extensive experience with the Adobe Creative Suite—most notably Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and After Effects—as well as Procreate, Figma, and other design software, though she loves to learn new platforms. Her colleagues describe her as energetic, enthusiastic, positive, flexible, and friendly.