I'll send a proposal with timeline and pricing. If it's a fit, you pay a deposit to secure your spot and we're off.

I specialize in Squarespace, I have found it is the easiest platform to pass off to clients that regularly update their site and add content on their own. It is very user friendly and we provide training sessions to ensure you have the tools you need to manage your site going forward.

For Social Media templates I will create them in Canva or Adobe Express. The tool allows the everyday person to control their design assets and take control of their presence online.

For Presentations and word documents I use google drive.

Upon completion of our project I will provide all final files in multiple formats best used in both print and digital as well as the native, editable, Adobe files.

50% deposit to start, 50% upon completion. For projects scheduled 90+ days out, we split into three payments.

Consultation calls happen within days. Project timeline depends on scope and my current schedule—we'll lock it in during the proposal phase.

Absolutely. While Design Shop MPLS is based in Minneapolis, MN, I work with restaurants, product companies, and entrepreneurs across the country. Most of the process happens remotely — discovery calls, digital presentations, and collaborative feedback rounds — with no drop in quality or attention. If you're outside the Twin Cities, you're still very much welcome here.

When you hire Design Shop MPLS you get me — Kate Carlson — on every single aspect of your project, start to finish. No junior designers, no account managers playing telephone, no diluted vision. Just one experienced creative partner who's deeply invested in your outcome. That's something a traditional agency simply can't offer.

My sweet spot is restaurants, food and beverage brands, CPG companies, beauty brands, and lifestyle product companies — businesses where design has a direct, tangible impact on how customers feel and buy. That said I've worked with everyone from city governments to woodworkers to real estate developers. If you have a brand that needs to connect with people, we should talk.

Yes — and that's one of the things that makes Design Shop MPLS genuinely unique. Most designers hand you off to a web developer or an interior designer mid-project. I offer brand identity, website design and development, and interior and environmental design all under one roof. Your brand stays cohesive from the logo to the walls to the screen — because the same creative eye touched all of it.

If you're launching something new, rebranding an existing business, or simply tired of your brand not reflecting the quality of what you do — you're ready. The best time to invest in your brand is before you launch. The second best time is right now.