Karina Duncan is a UK-based print design consultant specialising in swim and resortwear. She creates hand-painted, storytelling prints for swim-resort brands-working from brief through to production-ready files including engineered prints, allover repeats, and layered PSDs. She graduated with a degree in Design for Textiles in Scotland and worked in-house at a textile mill in Portugal before establishing her independent consultancy.

Bold, narrative-driven prints with a hand-painted energy. Karina positions her work as storytelling-prints that are distinctively on-brand and recognisable in a competitive resortwear market. The portfolio features vibrant, colourful surface designs with tropical or expressive character suited to swimwear and resortwear placement. She explicitly frames her value proposition as helping brands move from follower to innovator.

Hand-painting is central to her process, with digital translation to production-ready formats. Delivers layered PSD files with perfect repeats, Pantone-matched colours, and engineered layouts designed to work with specific garment flats. Experienced with both digital and screen-printing technical requirements for apparel production.

Swim-resort brands exclusively-her positioning is as a specialist print consultant for this market. No named clients documented publicly. Services include: custom design from client brief (client owns final artwork), licensed collection designs (exclusive and non-exclusive agreements), and engineered placement prints mapped to garment flats.

Graduated with a degree in Design for Textiles from a Scottish university. Relocated to Portugal and worked in-house at a textile mill, gaining technical production knowledge. Now UK-based, operating as a specialist print consultant for the swim-resort market.

Hand-painted prints for swimwear and resortwear applications. The portfolio features vibrant, decorative designs with tropical and expressive qualities. Engineered prints-designed to work with specific garment templates-are a core technical offering alongside allover repeats.