The Builder
Enjoys working with practical things you can see or touch and making them better - tools, animals, and machines. Enjoys the outdoors. Likes to work with THINGS.
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MAIP Year: 2014
Title, Company: Visual Designer, Huge
Stephanie Corona is a visual designer based out of Chicago, IL. She recently made the jump to the digital world of design, and currently works with Huge on the McDonald's account. Previously she's gotten to work with on projects for Bayer, SC Johnson, Wrigley, and United Airlines. She has a background in advertising, infographics, presentations, and bookmaking.
Who/what influenced or inspired you to pursue design?
I was extremely lucky to attend a public high school that had a well-developed and well-funded arts program. I got to… Read more
Architecture, Art & Design
Magic A. Moreno, born in 1953, is a music producer, performer and educator. He has his own company, Magic Presence Studios. He became involved with the music industry thanks to his stage mom, who taught him violin at the age of four. He learned quickly, and just two years later performed at a competition at The Hollywood Bowl. At the age of eight he joined the Mitchell Singing Boys choir alongside his brother, Gerard. During his five years with the choir, Moreno traveled across three continents. He learned about several religious philosophies from the group’s leader, a theologian, which… Read more
Entertainment, Media & Sports
Watch and listen to Chrissi's story on how she became a creative director.
Architecture, Art & Design
MAIP Year: 1991
Title, Company: UX Content Lead, Allstate
Clifton Simmons II has worked as an advertising copywriter for over 25 years, working on many major brands – Chevy, Chrysler, Coke, McDonald's and more. He's created many award-winning campaigns in event, experiential and digital marketing. Clifton has used that experience to transition into UX content strategy, developing mobile applications.
Who/what influenced or inspired you to pursue advertising?
My people of my generation credit Darren Stevens of TV's Bewitched as an influence. For me, it was Tom Hanks. His TV show Bosom… Read more
Architecture, Art & Design
Sofiya Kukharenko is an Industrial and Systems Engineer at SKF USA, Inc., based in Georgia. She moved to the United States from Ukraine at the age of 2. From an early age, Sofiya seized every opportunity she could within the education system to become the second person in her family to graduate from an American college (after her older sister), and to achieve success in a male-dominated career.
Sofiya graduated from the prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology which she attended on a full-ride HOPE scholarship. Georgia Tech is ranked first in the world by US News & World Report for… Read more
Engineering
Chrissi Hernandez is a creative director and travel blogger living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Her younger, illustrator self started out designing bohemian prints for Scanty, a small loungewear company. For the last six years she has been sharpening her digital skills, art directing for thredUP and Sephora in foggy San Francisco and freelancing for smaller companies in sunny southern California. When she's not designing, she's traveling across the globe. Chrissi is passionate about exploring, whether that means visiting a new city or country (Croatia is a recent favorite), or discovering… Read more
Architecture, Art & Design