Cherika D.

✅️ Currently booking projects starting Nov 9. I specialize in packaging design and production for food, beverage, and gourmet brands. My work combines illustration and design with the technical side of packaging: building consistent product lines, adapting labels across SKUs, and preparing files that are actually ready to print. A big part of my job is catching the small things before files leave your hands. Incorrect colors, messy vectors, inconsistent layouts, missing production details... once something goes to print, those mistakes become expensive. Here’s what I usually work on: ✦ Concept development and art direction ✦ Custom illustration ✦ Packaging and label design or recreation ✦ Design execution within existing brand systems ✦ Artwork adaptation across SKUs, formats and provided dielines ✦ Prepress, CMYK and vector cleanup ✦ Print-ready files and organized source files I also work with packaging as a system rather than treating every label as a separate piece. When there are multiple SKUs, I keep the structure, visual language, and production setup consistent so everything clearly belongs to the same product family. I’ve worked on packaging projects for international clients and printers, so I’m comfortable handling the less glamorous but very important part of the process too: production specs, file organization, adaptations, and final prepress checks. If the creative direction is already clear and you need someone to take care of execution, adaptations, and clean production-ready files, that’s the kind of work I do every day.