Patty Fabian has lived in the Traverse City area for 20 years. She is a 30-plus year veteran of the graphic design and creative marketing industry. Prior to moving to Traverse City, Patty owned an operated Shepelak Design Associates, a Chicago design firm that provided marketing design and consulting services to corporate, institutional and not-for-profit clients, including the National Restaurant
Association, American Hospital Association, Loyola University, Quaker Oats Company, Sprint Cellular and many others.. She has an extensive background in all facets of print marketing communications, corporate identity, publication design and web design. Currently, she is owner of Patty Fabian Creative Marketing, a full-service creative agency that integrates design and marketing providing strategically focused and creatively powerful advertising, design and cross media programs. With a wide range of services including web & print design, packaging, email campaigns, press releases, media placement and more, she builds your brand across all media. By blending your industries knowledge with her expertise on design and marketing PFCM produces high-impact marketing strategies aimed to capture your target audience. Patty brings experience, dedication and a solid creative philosophy to every project, giving the utmost attention to detail no matter how large or small the project is. Patty's commitment to top-notch customer service means her clients will not only reach the goals they set, but they will exceed them. Patty was born and raised in the Chicago area and has a B.F.A. in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. While in Chicago she also studied faux painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon moving to Traverse City in 1995, she took time off from the business world focusing her efforts on her young family and decorative painting. She has painted murals and decorative pieces around town for business and private residences including working with New Millennium on the Civic Opera House restoration project where she managed the stencil creation and painted the dome cherubs among other areas. During this time she continued to do freelance graphic design projects, which lead her to her current focus, Patty Fabian Creative Marketing. In her ever-dwindling free time, Patty enjoys putsing around in her extensive flower and vegetable gardens where she employs organic gardening techniques to great success. She is crazy about composting and vermiculture composting, having even set up a red worm box at her son’s school. After years of enjoying all the wonderful botanic gardens in the Chicago area, she is very excited to have the opportunity to serve on the board for the Botanical Garden Society in its efforts to bring such a jewel to Northwest Michigan.
