Gracelle Mesina

Filipina-Canadian (she/her) digital designer, artist, zine-maker, singer + budding stand-up comedian

🐢 Based on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, Stó:lō, Stz'uminus + Musqueam

CURRENT ROLES

🚀 Senior Designer @ Critical Mass on the Airbnb MarCom Growth team (since 2021)

🤓 Industry Mentor for entry-level designers + recent grads in various RGD Mentorship Programs (since 2023)

👩🏻‍🏫 Advisory Board Member @ IDEA School of Design at Capilano University (since 2023)

✂️ Zinester with the Made by Tarantados collective (since 2024)

🎤 Mezzo-soprano singer, soloist + merch designer in Chorus Studio's R&B/Gospel B-Roll choir (since 2018) 

SPECIALTIES

💾 Figma extraordinaire

🕸️ Branding + UI systems: bridging the gap between dev + design for mobile apps/digital products + large-scale websites

🪄 Creative strategy + design direction: for websites + marketing campaigns, high-level, holistic, values-based, for any scale

📝 Copywriting: pitch decks + speeches, long-form content + prose, comedy

PAST

🎓 Education: BA in Design with honours from Simon Fraser University (School of Interactive Arts + Technology, 2014)

🗄️ Clients I've worked with: HP, Rocky Mountaineer, BC Hydro, Concord Theatricals, Ocean Wise

💻 Interactive Designer @ Engine Digital (grew steadily from Junior to Senior from 2015 to 2021)

FAVOURITES

🎶 Music: Beyoncé, Arctic Monkeys, Jazmine Sullivan, PJ Morton, Olivia Dean, Bad Bunny, Jungle, Anderson .Paak, Lauryn Hill

🤣 Comedy: Ali Wong, Sheng Wang, Atsuko Okatsuka, Jenny Slate, Bo Burnham's "Inside", Nick Kroll's "Little Big Boy", Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks & Recreation, Broad City

🎭 Musicals: Rent, Hamilton, Hadestown, The Outsiders

💥 Animes + Animation: Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, One Piece, Delicious in Dungeon, Adventure Time, The Midnight Gospel, everything Studio Ghibli

WOO-WOO EXTRAS

🔭 Astrology: Taurus Sun in 1st, Scorpio Moon in 7th, Taurus Ascendant

✨ Human Design: Projector, 2/4

🧠 Myers-Briggs Type: ENFP-A ("Campaigner")