Art Direction & Design

Caitlyn Grabenstein is a professional artist, designer, and digital marketer based out of the Hartford, Connecticut area. She founded CLG Design Co. in 2019 as a way to offer comprehensive art and design direction, as well as, marketing services for businesses and individuals.

Caitlyn has personally worked on over 150 freelance art, design, website, and social media projects. These projects have included clients like Netflix, Adobe Creative Cloud, Warner Bros., Unilever, Porsche, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and more. Her own art has been featured by Goop, WIRED Magazine, Thrillist, Vogue, Poosh, Bored Panda, and more.

She personally grew her artwork Instagram, @Cult.Class to over 595k followers and her artwork Facebook page to over 45k followers.

In 2016, before starting CLG Design Co., Caitlyn was hired full-time by a government contractor, a company with over 40 million dollars in revenue, to redesign their website. She migrated their site to WordPress and a new server, redesigned the entire website, imported all data, optimized the SEO (moving the site from pages back on Google search to the first result), and installed Google Analytics. She also worked as a certified SharePoint designer for their customer.

From 2014 through 2016, she worked full-time for Broadcast Music, Inc on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of her time at BMI, she had been promoted to a Senior Business Affairs Coordinator in their Legal Department.

Caitlyn’s creative business pursuits started during that time. She began creating websites for her charitable music business, BANDADE, in 2013. Through her charitable business, she worked with artists like The Goo Goo Dolls, Imagine Dragons, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Ingrid Michaelson, Alabama Shakes, Florence Welch, and more. Caitlyn’s charitable business ultimately hosted more than 50 charity shows with over 60 different artists, raising thousands of dollars for cancer research. She grew the BANDADE Instagram account to over 10k followers.

Caitlyn graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

From her experience running a business and creating graphics across several different industries, Caitlyn knows the importance of aesthetic and digital marketing to a company’s, or individual’s, brand.

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Below are just a few of the awesome brands and businesses that CLG Design Co. has worked with.


Website Projects

Logo Projects