MANDARINA DESIGNS

I was born in Colombia. After graduating from business school, I moved to Costa Rica and lived there for 3 years before moving to the US over 17 years ago. I live in Cincinnati with my husband Marc, my kids Lucia and Martin, and my cat, Lolo... After working for over a decade with Brand Marketers in the corporate world I realized I needed to make a change and listen to my heart and my creative calling. I had long begun drawing and calligraphy and had fallen in love with the concepts of brand print ads and benefit visualization, so I went back to school to study graphic design. Soon after, I found a passion for surface pattern design (which is creating artwork, most commonly in the form of repeating patterns or illustrations for different products like fabric, gift wrap, wallpaper, dish ware, notebooks and any other product that has a surface), so I took a chance and left my day job (and a company full of people I love) to pursue my dream of becoming a surface pattern designer.

Also known as: Mandarina Designs LTD