PROFILE
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McKenna Long is an American multidisciplinary designer specializing in creative direction, branding, analog photography, interiors, and furniture design. With years of experience as a creative studio owner, she brings a refined eye and intuitive storytelling to projects and creative collaboration.
BFA Graphic Design
Minor in Business
3.9 GPA
August 2023 - May 2026
Paris College of Art
Study Abroad in Interior Design January - May 2025
Creative Director
Designer
May 2022 - Present
MCKENNA LONG PHOTO LLC
Founder
Photographer
May 2022 - Present
ARCHELOGICAL SITE AT ISTHMIA
Design + Architectural Intern
Isthmia, Greece
May 2025
IMPACT 89
Digital Media Director
Michigan State University
February - October 2024
VIM Magazine
Graphic Designer
Michigan State University
January - May 2024
CRAFT COFFEE INDUSTRY
Lead Barista
Graphic Designer
Photographer
Michigan
2020 - 2024
Illustrator
InDesign
After Effects
Photoshop
Lightroom Classic
Figma
Rhino 3D
AutoCAD
Sketchup
Michigan State University
CITIZEN (café)
2025
Paris College of Art Undergraduate Interior Design Exhibition
Paris, France
2025
The Gregory Archive
Promotional Collatoral
Data Visuaization
Isthmia, Greece
2025
American Advertising Awards
Michigan
2025
MSU CAL Foundations Exhibition
Michigan State University
2025
Day of Design
Michigan State University
2025
“This is Our Show” Electronic Art & Intermedia Gallery
Michigan State University
2025
Electronic Art & Intermedia Festival
Michigan State University
2025
MSU CAL Foundations Exhibition
Michigan State University
2024
January 2025 - May 2025
Joe and Shirley Kuszai Endowed Scholarship 2025
Silver Addy Award 2025
Le Détroit Award 2025
Design Excellence Award 2024
MSU Deans list
All Semesters
Last Updated 31.1.26
Furniture Design
Construction and Fabrication
2025
A conceptual bar café exploring how spatial systems choreograph human behavior through themes in modularity, furniture as an influence to human pattern, and the way spaces inform acts of gathering. The piece was driven by observations in how cafés script social dynamics through arrangement of physical objects- proposing that these third spaces are less about a fixed environment, but more so about rhythm, energy, and interaction.
Interior Design
Architecture
Case Study
2025
Driven by storyelling, experience, and a cohesive visual narrative this laser cut bas relief model case study of Modum Atelier’s Moment Atelier explores space and interior architecture. The abstraction of material and structural moments dilutes the form to layer, depth, and spatial hierarchy. The process focused on the interplay of weight and weightlessness, solid and void, and structure and space. This study became a tactile interpretion of an alternative to project communication.
Furniture Design
Construction and Fabrication
2025
This steel-fabricated modular table lamp explores the tension between light and rigidity, drawing on brutalist architectural principles and Mid-Century Modern materiality. The structucture and surface challanges of concepts of balance, gravity, and the dichotomy of weight and weightlessness.
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