✿ about

✿ Dalia is an LA-based Sr. Art Director, illustrator, and cat-lady whose creativity has been fueled by a lifelong love of everything from animation and tv to fashion and design to gaming and crafting.

She is especially passionate about how important visual storytelling through wardrobe and set design plays into building characters and the overall narrative.

As a creative working within the Hispanic/Multicultural market since the beginning of her career, she has been pushed to create work that is meaningful, insightful and authentic, and driven by truths beyond surface-level ideas.

Collaboration and the challenge of solving even puzzle-like briefs have been what has driven her love of storytelling through advertising.

✿ experience

AGENCIES

  • DIESTE

    • Sr. Art Director — Jan 2026-Present

    • Art Director — Feb 2022-Dec 2025

    • Jr. Art Director — Dec 2020-Feb 2022

  • CASANOVA-MCCANN

    • Jr. Art Director — Jan 2020-Dec 2020

    • Creative Intern — Jun 2019-Jan 2020

BRANDS

  • Current: AT&T

  • Previous: Nestlé, Shoe Carnival, The LGBTQ Center OC, OASIS Center Int'l, Ulta

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:

  • U.S. Hispanic Young Lions | First Place | Film | 2022

  • Cannes Young Lions | Shortlist | Digital | 2021

  • U.S. Hispanic Young Lions | First Place | Digital | 2021

  • One Club Creative Bootcamp LA | First Place | Truth Campaign | 2019

  • CCMA | First Place | Best Cartoon | 2018

  • JACC | First Place | Webcast Broadcast News | 2018​

  • CMA | First Place | Best Editorial Cartoon | 2018

  • JACC | Second Place | Illustration | 2017

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