Corinne Nakamura-Rybak
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.— Sir Isaac Newton
An award-winning creative director, Corinne leads MG/ISMG’s international design studio from our Portland, Oregon headquarters. She skillfully and beautifully crafts design and strategy into a unified vision.
Corinne’s extraordinary skills are rooted in her depth of experience. She has been building compelling international brand stories and designing campaigns for her clients for over two decades. Her work engages audiences through brand experiences that are meaningful and compelling. She does this by creating experiences, stirring emotions and promoting dialogue. Corinne is an expert at design in all mediums including video, digital, experiential, and environmental.
Her areas of expertise include:
- Creating new brands, design strategies and design direction
- Setting creative direction brand strategies
- Developing campaigns
- Storytelling through film, video, digital environments and print
- Creating narrative environments
- Co-creating with stakeholder groups
- Fulfilling communication needs for arts groups, philanthropic organizations, nonprofits and socially conscious companies
Experience
Corinne has a Master of Arts degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University, a Bachelor of Arts degree in graphic design from California College of the Arts, and an Associate in Arts degree from San José City College.
In Community
Corinne is a board member of Nritya Mandala Mahavihara, the first Nepalese Buddhist temple in the West. She is a dancer and teacher of dance of a 1,000-year-old practice in the Newar tradition, frequently performing with Dance Mandal. She is also an advisor to the Japanese American Museum of Oregon.
She loves contemporary art, snowboarding, electronic dance music, friends, and family.