Mom and pops, I made it

⟡ ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Clio — Bronze 2024
Jay Chiat Award - Bronze 2019
AdAge’s Editor’s Pick
Best Ads On TV Pick: Web + Film
Advertising BFA + Honors
One Show 2017, 2018
ArtCenter Dean's List / 2016
ArtCenter Provost List / 2015 - 2018
ArtCenter Gallery / 2015 - 2018
ArtCenter Scholarship / 2015 - 2018

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Over & Above Africa
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hi hello hey
konNichiwa what’s up

I’m Mariya Munsey - the Y is there because I’m half Japanese.

Think of the song Maria by Santana or the one from Sound of Music if you have a hard time figuring out how to say my name. I promise it will help. No need to sing it to me out loud though.

I’m an Art Director, photographer, retired semi-pro dog walker, and I help run a community first gym called Earned/Not Given Club. I was born in Tokyo, lived in LA for 10 years, and now am back in Seattle — technically my hometown. I also graduated with honors from ArtCenter College of Design with a degree in Advertising (lol).

I think my love for creative work started when I won a fashion competition at age 5 while visiting Japan. They told me I won because I ‘creatively stayed in the lines’ and apparently I had given them a design they had never seen before. Now, I have a career kinda doing the same thing.

Currently, my creative dream is to make a children’s book, photograph a big concert, work on a TV show/movie/music video, and most importantly get Guy Fieri in at least one thing I work on. But my day job is art directing at R&R. Find me where the dogs, dranks, friends, and shenanigans are or at the contact information below:

E: mariya.munsey@gmail.com