The Corner Studio is a brand experience firm that aims to highlight the value of corporate and personal brand identity through graphic communication and multimedia. By collaboratively and strategically employing a multidisciplinary network of artists, designers, programmers, animators, illustrators and more, we strive to deliver excellent quality, service and support to any size of client.
We specialize in the customer, providing design and products tailored specifically to express a personalized identity. Our goal is to deliver a quality product that exemplifies who you are, providing exactly what you need to communicate in the most personal manner possible. We pay great attention to detail, and we love whitespace.
Our goal as a firm is to contribute to our planet’s and humanity’s well-being through responsible and conservative business operations practices. [One way we achieve this is through keeping a small operations footprint. By keeping our team small and focused, leveraging our network for the right task at the right time, and keeping our work digital where possible, we don’t need to spend precious resources on energy for office spaces, fuel for commuting, or paper products for printing and markup.] The Corner Studio looks forward to the day when humanity can once again find harmony with nature through sustainable and ecologically-minded efforts.
In starting this firm, we want to relate to the client as the solution “waiting around the corner”.
“I learned in a period of
organized chaos that the best
place to put “the stuff” you
need is in the corner.”
A LITTLE BACKGROUND...
In 2009, Marisa our founder, started a boutique agency in Guatemala City, her home town. Inspired by brands and with an entrepreneurial spirit, but now with a love story, she closed that studio and moved to USA in 2013. Keeping a handful of the clients she had in Guatemala, Marisa began her search for a new market in the United States.
In the meantime, Katia was venturing on her own as well. Following her mom’s dream to have their own design studio, she took on her mom’s brand and sourced new projects on her own. In 2014, she re-branded the studio, and focused her efforts on expanding the services.
After 12+ years of combined experience working design, branding and marketing, Marisa proposed a partnership with Katia to expand The Corner Studio, with headquarters in United States, and also in Guatemala. They work great together, complimenting each other’s efforts and creativity to provide a curated brand identity for their clients, and grow their corner of the market. It’s been a wild ride to start growing a business in two different countries, during a pandemic, but here they are: Stronger than ever, and thankful for being able to DREAM BIG and use their talents!
Meet Marisa!
Marisa Bean is passionate about life, good coffee, people, and their stories. She likes to adventure outdoors and road-trip to reconnect with places and people she loves. Her education in Graphic Design and Advertising became whole with an MBA, specialized in Finance, to embark on her dream career as a Brand Manager, and her experience in photography helps her provide personalized end-to-end services to businesses of all shapes and sizes.
She’s a wife, mom-of-four, and businesswoman. Her capacity to successfully manage multiple things at a time (as is often required with children) has given her keen insight, and made her a reliable advisor, in project management and resource optimization.
Through her work and life experiences, Marisa has discovered the unique way individuals seek growth, and leverage their talents to sell a product, a service, or themselves. She realized the key to personal marketing is in connecting your story authentically to your audience, rather than trying to create the story you think your audience wants to hear. Let Marisa help you find your story, and grow your brand on your terms.
Meet Katia!
Katia Zúñiga, is a culture and nature enthusiast, she loves and finds inspiration in traveling and reading. She finds peace sharing quality time with her family, decorating new spaces, and sunbathing at the beach. The sound of the ocean, combined with a good book, let her travel into her imagination and creative process.
Her vast experience and higher education as a Branding Strategist and Innovation Developer, covers broad knowledge about how to build a brand, create its top-of-mind, and focus its efforts and direction to grow its audience and become memorable.
She excels at discovering new trends through detailed observation and adapting brand strategies to leverage those trends for growth. That’s how she finds courage to succeed as a young entrepreneur. Katia’s passion for marketing, community management, and design can help build your brand through well-targeted communications that aim to build a relationship with your audience.
