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About Reece Quiñones

Perspective comes
from practice.

Creative leader. Brand strategist.
Designer. Storyteller. Educator. Producer.

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Reece Quiñones smiling

The Person Behind the Work

Sometimes I guide it.
Sometimes I make it.
Often, both.

I’m Reece Quiñones. My practice connects brand strategy, creative direction, hands-on design, teaching, and mentoring. I build creative teams and capabilities, develop new lines of business, and bring audience insight into the decisions that shape the work.

My experience spans agency, newspaper, nonprofit, and corporate environments. Across those settings, I’ve learned to connect business objectives with the people, ideas, and processes needed to bring them to life.

I use research and campaign insights throughout the creative process to refine the message, strengthen the brand, and help every creative investment work harder.

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Colleagues gathered around a laptop and printed work in an office lounge.
Hatcher creative staff quarterly meet-up
Reece and Teo Blindu standing together against a blue wall.
Mentor and mentee: Reece and Teo
Green and yellow Pantone color swatches.
Favorite color: CMYKRGB. But if you make me choose just one, green.

A Continuing Practice

Always Curious.
Always a Student.

Teaching and mentoring keep learning at the center of my practice. I’m interested in how emerging technologies can make learning more engaging, accessible, and effective, and in what independent film can teach us about storytelling and collaboration.

My studio, painting, and time in nature give me space to observe, explore, and return to the work with a fresh perspective.

Explore Teaching ↗

I’m exploring how AI is changing graphic design, creative operations, and design education. Through 9th Collective Lab, I’m developing approaches that expand what designers can do while preserving authorship, critical thinking, and craft.

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Giving Back

Help others grow.
Strengthen the community.

Design is strengthened by the people who share what they know and make room for others. Giving back through professional service, scholarship support, mentoring, and community conversations is part of how I practice.

Professional Affiliations

  • AIGA, the professional association for design
  • Design Management Institute
  • Art Directors Club / The One Club for Creativity

Scholarships & Professional Service

I serve on the AIGA DC Design Continuum Fund Scholarship Committee and the DCF Endowment Governance Board, supporting opportunities for emerging designers.

  • 2010–present · AIGA DC Design Continuum Fund Scholarship Committee
  • 2021–present · AIGA DCF Endowment Governance Board

I served as AIGA–Mason faculty liaison in 2016–2017 and delivered the 2020 Design Continuum Fund scholarship keynote and fundraiser remarks.

Mentoring & Community Conversations

Mentoring through Shine and individual relationships creates opportunities to share experience, build confidence, and learn from one another.

Community contributions have included a mentoring presentation with Teo Blindu in Berlin, design presentations and workshops, and an AIGA DC panel on parenting and work-life balance.

Supporting the Profession

Judging student and professional work offers another way to contribute to the creative community. My service has included:

  • AIGA Baltimore’s Flux student design competition, 2024
  • Association of Writers and Writing Programs literary magazine design competition, 2015
  • UCEA Marketing and Publication Awards, 2009 and 2014
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Along the way

People. Places.
Shared experiences.

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Reece seated in a sculptural yellow chair beside tall lamps.
Reece and Anne Likes Red at the National Building Museum.
Reece and two colleagues taking a selfie at DC Design Week.
Reece posing with another attendee at the AIGA National Conference.
Hatcher colleagues celebrating in yellow headbands and wristbands.
Reece and friends taking a group selfie at Chanel’s birthday celebration.
A group selfie with Reece and fellow AIGA conference attendees.
An AIGA DC banner reading Creating space for designers since 1984.
People greeting one another at an event with an OSI Baltimore display.
Reece taking a selfie with two friends.
Reece wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Reece and Lindsey Smith taking a selfie.
A wooden boardwalk crossing coastal grasses.
The illuminated Eiffel Tower beside a carousel at night.
A symmetrical view beneath a Paris bridge at night.
Two people standing across a marker for the former Berlin Wall.
George Mason University School of Art buttons.
Rock formations beneath a blue sky at the Grand Canyon.
Reece posing with her son.
A waterway winding through grasses and trees in Calvert County.
A wooden walkway leading to a sandy beach beside trees and calm water.
Reece at the 2013 AIGA DCF Design Dungeon event.
A three-picture photo-booth strip from the AIGA 50 event on June 7, 2018.
A group celebrating together in an AIGA 50 photo-booth strip from June 7, 2018.
Reece and a fellow attendee taking a selfie at an AIGA conference.
Reece and fellow attendees taking a group selfie at AIGA DC 50 in 2018.
A group gathered with Louise Fili at a DCF event in 2014.
A child wearing a red headband and plaid shirt.
Reece posing with her brothers.
A smiling child leaning against a brick wall.
Two smiling children embracing outdoors.
Reece embracing her niece and nephew.
A golden sunset over the water and a sandy beach.
A close-up of dimensional Hatcher lettering on an office wall.

Why Nine?

Coming full circle is at the heart of nine: bringing what I learn back into what I make. It is a number with a curious pattern, and a personal connection.

9th Collective brings my perspectives together while giving credit to the people who help bring the work to life.

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