Meet Mariona Mora

We were lucky to catch up with Mariona Mora recently and have shared our conversation below.

Mariona, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?

I stay creatively alive by staying present and paying attention. I’m always collecting small moments—things that catch my eye during the day, like the way fruit is arranged at a market, or the texture of a fabric, or a color combination on the street. I take photos or screenshots and save them in a folder on my phone. They become quiet reference points I revisit when starting a new project. I also think creativity grows when there’s space for it, so I try to protect unstructured time whenever I can.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

My name is Mariona Mora, and I’m an Art Director and Creative Consultant working across fashion, art, and culture. I spent nearly four years as Head of Communications and Art Director at Gabriel for Sach, a Barcelona-based fashion brand. Since then, I’ve continued working independently on creative projects, and most recently I launched Cantina Simona—a food design studio that explores storytelling through food and the experiences it creates.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Intuition has been really important—choosing the projects I actually feel like doing, trusting my ideas, and standing by my vision even if others think differently. You get to a point where you know what your place is, so you have to trust yourself enough to hold it.

Authenticity is also part of it. Not being afraid to show your perspective or share your ideas. That’s what makes the work yours.

And honestly, being kind is the best advice I could give. Being thankful, open, easy to work with. Willing to help, to listen, to build something together. If you’re kind to people, people will be kind to you.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

A book that has really stayed with me is Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s not about career or professional growth in a direct way, but it gave me a lot of perspective. It talks about how we relate to life, death, love, sadness… And that kind of reflection has helped me both personally and creatively. I don’t see life and work as two separate things—I see work as something that exists within my life, so I try to make sure both are aligned. That book reminded me to think more deeply about how I move through the world, not just through my work.

One of the passages that struck me most is where Rilke describes sadness as something unknown that enters us—a foreign presence we don’t yet understand. He writes that this sadness remains within us until it transforms, and eventually reveals itself as something new. It’s a way of looking at sadness not as an interruption, but as part of a deeper process of change.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.marionamora.com