the visionary’s origin story
Mecca McDonald is a 24-year-old emerging director, visual artist, and creative based in New York. She is adept at creating unique visual elements in many mediums. Mecca has over five years of experience in photography, drawing, painting, graphic design, and creative direction.
In 2021, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University, with a BA in Psychology and Economics. She minored in visual arts and was awarded the Eugene Leake Award for outstanding achievement in the Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2019, her work has been featured in three different exhibitions.
As a senior in college, she co-founded two companies. Pedestal, a production company, and Mo.Na. , a fashion biomaterials company. Mo.Na. received $25k in funding from Johns Hopkins University. As the creative director of Mo.Na. she uses photography, set design, and storytelling to capture her brand’s essence.
Within and outside of Pedestal, Mecca has done production design and creative direction on multiple short films, and over 200 photoshoots, and worked with brands like Apple, Adobe, and fendi-versace.
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Mo.Na. is a bioplastic company that was born out of our college house kitchens. The founders are Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn, two Johns Hopkins Alumni. We are artists driven by passion and curiosity with a dream of building a better world Mo.Na. blends with our interests art, science, and fashion. As the creative director of Mo.Na. I used photography, set design, and storytelling to capture our brand’s essence: sustainability and tropical futurism.
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Co-Founder. Creative Director.
a production company dedicated to telling joyful stories of racialized peoples. We use vibrant colors and unique storytelling to showcase a world beyond our current imaginations
One of my creative goals through pedestal is to influence and change how we see our world through visual art.
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