Our motto is engage, educate and grow your audience, and we’re certainly capable of helping our clients visualize design solutions to fit any project, goal, or initiative. We believe our clients should maintain a voice in the design process and make sure they’re part of the brainstorming and development stages of each project. We try to be flexible with our clients’ needs and do what we can to ensure the success of their project.
Our team
KarBelMultimedia was founded in 2008 by Belinda and Karsten Ivey. Our team consists of graphic designers and former visual journalists with years of graphic design experience in newspapers, magazines, and working with brands and agencies around the country. Their graphic design background gives KarBel a diverse set of skills that helps provide clients with a wide array of visual storytelling options.
Belinda Ivey
CEO, Co-founder
Belinda is an artist who found her passion for design when a college professor gave her two books: Tim Harrow’s The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook and the 15th Annual Society of News Design’s Best of News Design.
Belinda’s award-winning career has sling-shot her from the halls of the University of Florida to the design and graphic design departments of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, the Arizona Republic and the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
She co-founded KarBel Multimedia in 2008 while working at the Sun-Sentinel. Belinda left the newspaper industry in 2011 to focus on KarBel Multimedia full time.
At KarBel, Belinda has driven visual solutions for brands such as Google, Kaufman Rossin, Stand Up To Cancer, American Academy of Pediatrics, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Magazine, and Microsoft.
An expert in her field, Belinda has been a guest speaker and given webinars and workshops at organizations and colleges across the country. Belinda is a former part-time lecturer at the University of Miami’s School of Communication, where she has taught graphic design, multimedia design, infographics, and web design to undergraduate students.
Belinda is now a part-time lecturer at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, where she teaches undergraduate courses in graphic design at the Department of Art and Art History at UNCC's College of Art + Architecture.
Belinda holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Motion Media Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Karsten Ivey
CCO, Co-founder
Karsten has been drawing and creating for as long as he can remember. At an early age, his mother planted the seed in his head about being a graphic designer. He did not know exactly what it was, but the idea of making a living doing what he loved to do was all he needed to pursue this passion.
After college, he began his career as a freelance graphic designer in Jacksonville, Florida for the UMC Group – a full-service ad agency. He then got a job as a graphic designer / Illustrator for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.
From there, Karsten moved on to become a senior graphic journalist at the South Florida Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, and was eventually promoted to the assistant graphics director in 2006.
Throughout Karsten's visual journalism career, he won numerous awards for his infographic design and interactive infographics work.
Karsten co-founded the KarBel Multimedia creative agency in the 2008. He left the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 2011 to focus on KarBel full time. At KarBel Multimedia, Karsten has developed various projects and visual solutions for clients such as T-Brand Studio / New York Times, Stand Up To Cancer, The Environmental Defense Fund, Fortune Magazine, and Google.
Karsten has always felt a duty to give back and share his expertise. He has taught and developed graphic design, infographic design and interactive workshops for high school students, college students, and professional journalists across the country.
Karsten is a former board member of the Society of News Design – an international organization for news media professionals and visual communicators.