’Tis a pleasure to meet you. Call me Cori for short.
I am a graphic designer who dabbles in photography. I love organizing information, shape, color and type in a beautiful way and capturing what others may overlook. Using my professional talents to benefit the community and to encourage others to learn and be creative is important to me.
Currently, I work as a graphic designer for PPG Architectural Coatings USCA and freelance for local businesses.
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I believe that understanding personality is crucial for clear communication and completing fulfilling work together. For you personality type junkies: I am an enneagram type one, a Myers-Briggs INFJ, and my MCORE motivations are organize, collaborate and influence behavior. I am a dedicated and detail-oriented lover of learning. I thrive in orderly environments with clear expectations and feedback. My values include quality over quantity and doing things the right way. And I love to organize... anything.
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Outside of design, I enjoy journaling, reading, watercolor, calligraphy, playing bass, drinking tea, daydreaming, rearranging my sock drawer/closet/desk, and taking meandering walks.
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EDUCATION
B.A. in Digital Design, Communication minor
Waynesburg University
Graduated May 2014
Valedictorian
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ON DESIGN
“The details are not the details. They make the design.” —Charles Eames
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I credit my mother for giving me the desire to create. The four years of homeschooling in elementary school were one long creative thinking and art class. We made the craziest creations using items around the house and went through paper and tape like mad.
As I aged, my creative interests drifted toward graphic design. I vividly recall when I held my first proof: The freshly-printed yearbook cover had a matte finish, and I was so, so very excited. So, I kept doing that thing called “designing” that made me excited.
I majored in digital design and minored in communication at Waynesburg University, where I had a grand time saying “yes” to being the graphic designer for a number of groups, including the student newspaper, literary magazine, the office of student services, and office of university relations. I graduated as valedictorian, blessed by being awarded for something I love to do.
My summer 2013 internship with Pittsburgh Quarterly, a regional magazine focused on business and culture, confirmed my love for print. Post-graduation, I have worked as a designer on a freelance basis for various Pittsburgh non-profits and full-time for a software company. I returned to Pittsburgh Quarterly in 2016 as graphic designer and web manager.
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
For as long as I can remember, I have had a desire to capture the light and details in this world that most people overlook; there was no particular day where I decided to “take up” photography. It is something that is involuntary for me. It simply happens.
“There is so much in this world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves—so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much in everywhere in which to delight and be thankful.” —Lucy Maud Montgomery
Photography is my way of capturing and sharing these things in which to delight and be thankful.
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
I’ve been told that I see things in a unique way. I do believe there is beauty in everything and everyone. It is my greatest hope as a photographer to teach people to see beauty without a camera and appreciate the details of creation.