Specialties: Creative Direction, Ideation, Print, Branding, Web
Quirks: easily excited, connoisseur of fine cats, guzzler of monster energy, literally always skips breakfast, more happy accident than pixel perfect, pathologically driven by visions of better worlds.
#ariesvibes #enneagram4 #chaoticgood #eldermillenial
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Picture a small town punk with blue hair, patches sewn on their jacket, and holes in their jeans. They go to three-person protests, play guitar in their room, listen to The Pixies on their Walkman*, and collage posters for local shows. Yeah… that’s me at 17 in little ‘ol Yakima, Washington. I was rebellious, anti-authoritarian, and hell-bent on forging my own path. Repelled by the idea of going to college, I dropped out of high school. That’s how the man gets ya, ya know. My plan? Work at a thrift store for the rest of my life and not let school taint my art.

That path? Fortuitously detoured by the jobs section of my local newspaper**. “Wanted: Screen Printer with Experience”. Experience? None of that. Moxie? A lot of that. I rang them up***,.“Hi, I’m Tania. I saw your ad in the paper. If I’ve never screen printed, how do I get experience in screen printing?” The receptionist, “Nobody has ever called and asked that question, can you come in for an interview tomorrow?” Job landed. Experience gained. When I wasn’t burning screens, mixing inks, or printing they let me experiment with the computer. I got my first glimpse of a road out of Yakima by learning to design t-shirts for local bands I liked. Graphic design was a way to talk to the world about things that mattered. I didn’t know how I was going to get there, but I knew where I was headed. Maybe college wasn't such a bad idea...
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I wound my way through a design degree, secured an internship in NY, and turned that into my first “grown-up” job. I traveled from coast to coast working dream design jobs before leaping into the business I dreamed up in college, a small creative studio named Brilliant so Brilliant. 24 years after I started rebelling, 19 years after I ran into that newspaper ad, and 15 years after I walked through the doors of my first design job, I’ve arrived carrying everything I’ve picked up along the way to help people talk about what matters in a cohesive, compelling, and creative way.

Specialties: Ideation, Illustration, Web, Print
Quirks: PC gaymer, new special interests drop every month, little noises and chirps on the regular, needs chocolate to self-regulate, needs chocolate to self-regulate, needs chocolate to self-regulate.

‍#eldergenZ  #AuDHD #businessschoolgrad #caffeinekween #makeupandmotorcycles #landback
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Designer by day, horror streamer by night. When I’m not at the ‘Brilliant so Brilliant’ studio desk, I’m at my own creating and cultivating a comfortable space online for fellow QTIGNC folx. It’s easy to catch me on YouTube wearing air-brushed makeup, playing Silent Hill for the umpteenth time, illustrating my feelings onto a digital canvas, or just chatting with people in my global audience.
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Raised punk out of necessity, I am an abolitionist from the roots up. I envision futures where no one goes without shelter, food, or basic necessities. In those futures, people have access to their ancestral inheritance, ownership of the value they’ve generated and injustice is rectified wherever it is encountered. There, love, kindness, and reciprocity aren't only reserved for people but also extended to the planet and all beings that live upon it.
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I find it immensely rewarding to express my creativity when it’s of benefit to others, especially folx at multiple intersections who often don’t experience spaces that are dedicated to or accommodating of them. Breaking traditional narratives to create pieces that truly center people’s experiences and stories drives my dedication to design. It’s important to me to represent not just the often exploited pain of marginalized folx, but to represent a joy that lives in opposition to systems of oppression. Joy that speaks to our humanity, to the worlds and dreams we have created for ourselves, and to the nurturing and growth we can achieve interdependently.