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by Karen Young

Karen Young

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Karen Young is a Toronto-based Creative Director and Senior Designer with extensive experience shaping compelling brand identities and multi-channel campaigns. She specializes in translating complex ideas into clean, effective visual communications across web, digital, and print.

As the long-time creative lead for Open Jaw Network and founder of KY Media, Karen has delivered hundreds of successful projects for clients in the global travel industry and beyond. Her work spans UX/UI design, website development, email marketing, and large-scale campaign execution—always grounded in strong strategy and measurable results.

Known for her collaborative approach, Karen works closely with clients, developers, and teams to ensure design integrity from concept through launch. She is equally passionate about mentoring, building efficient creative processes, and elevating the quality and consistency of every project she touches.

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Design work for Open Jaw Network

Client Testimonials

Karen is an absolute gem to work with. Not only is she fastidious in her attention to detail - she is an extremely talented artist. Fortunately, her creativity does not come at the expense of technical expertise. She is nimble at working through techie issues -- even if they fall outside her area of knowledge. We have all loved working with Karen these last 9 years. It's been way too easy!
Nina Slawek
President, OpenJaw.com
Karen is a very strong web developer with a great work ethic. She has been invaluable in developing our Flash based training simulations for retailers such as Bell, Radio Shack, Dressbarn, The Body Shop, The Beer Store, Kroger, and Harris Teeter. The work provides detailed step-by-step simulations that replicate systems software and hardware. The quality of her work be it the attention to detail or clever animations, combined with her team approach to ensure a deadline was always met, has made Karen a key member of our team.
Mark MacLaren
Founder, The MacLaren Group Inc.
Karen at KY Media helped me select and customize a WordPress theme for my design studio website. Everything was wonderfully executed, simplifying complicated tasks for me, handling the whole process of building a professional site. Over the 18 years I’ve known Karen, I’ve recommended her to numerous personal clients who’ve required web design, site maintenance and/or WordPress training, and have always had wonderful results. She’s incredibly diligent, exacting and knows the business. She’s also great to work with.
Jack Scrivener
Creative Director

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Let's Collaborate

Whether you have a specific campaign in mind or just want to chat about a new creative direction, I’d love to hear from you. Drop a line and let’s build something great together.