Mario Quezada
Owner, Creative Director
Mario Quezada is a Certified Brand Strategist, an award-winning Creative Director, and owner of Made X Maker Branding Agency in Honolulu, HI.
He received his BFA in Graphic Design / New Media from Pasadena Art Center College of Design.
Throughout his 25+ years of design and branding experience, he has helped multiple companies define their vision, discover their purpose, distinguish their audience, and deploy their brand.
Mario has worked with the industry’s top entertainment studios and brands; Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, Universal, ABC, NBC, Google, Ford, Microsoft, Al Gore, Conor McGregor, Hawaiian Airlines, Toyota, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation to name a few.
Mario has been on numerous award-winning teams that have won awards such as Cannes Grand Prix Cannes Lions, Silver Cannes Lions, Webby's, Cleos, One Show Interactive, and many w3 Awards.
When Mario isn’t crafting meaningful brands, he’s dating his wife, chasing after his two kids, throwing around heavy barbells, coaching designers and business owners, creating content for social media, making sourdough bread, editing church videos, or cooking for his family.
We look forward to building a long-term relationship with your team, as well as helping you tackle some of your biggest branding challenges.
Featured Media
Guest blogs and podcasts Mario has had the blessing to be included on.
Self Care for Creatives with Michael Janda
Michael Janda and Mario Quezada discuss the importance of self care for creative professionals. The conversation touches on balancing physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health, as well as, moderating any over indulgence from Red Bull consumption to lifting weights.
Mario Quezada on TheFutur podcast with Chris Do
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” This poignant quote from Mark Twain taps into the theme of this episode: grit. As in fortitude, guts, backbone
Creating a healthy mindset with G’Day Frank
In this episode, I’m chatting with my Hawaiian brother, Mario Quezada about our battles with mindset and how we can better approach the work we do and the lives we live as creative entrepreneurs and even as parents. G’Day Design life, 2 Red Chairs podcast.
This week we are doing another live Q&A with Mario Quezada. Mario has helped me tackle a lot of thought patterns and questions that I was having.
Instamersion: iM talk Episode 3
Mario Quezada is a Certified Brand Strategist, an award-winning Creative Director, and owner of Made X Maker Branding Agency in Honolulu, HI. He received his BFA in Graphic Design / New Media from Pasadena Art Center College of Design.
Brand Strategy chats with WildStory
Mario Quezada and I have an open conversation on what it means to be a senior strategist and how we both found our way here from different backgrounds.
We’ve been honored to work with some of the world’s most amazing and influential brands.
24Hr Fitness Hawaii
42 Entertainment
ABC
Al Gore
Alii Tacos Restaurant
AllKine CrossFit
Aloha Ke Akua Clothing
Aloha Keiki
Aloha Squared
Arkaios CrossFit
Blue Startups
BOSS Games
Brand33
Brett Hill Companies
Brick House Athletics
Calvary Chapel Montebello
Cinnamon’s Restaurant
Civil Beat
Conor McGregor
CrossFit AllStar
CrossFit Dakine
CrossFit Endzone
CrossFit Ganbatte
CrossFit HTF
CrossFit Kia Maia New Zealand
CrossFit Reason
CrossFit Resistance
CrossFit Volition
Da Jesus Guys
DadPreneur Podcast
Descend on Bend
Diamond Head Home Inspections
Disney
Divergent CrossFit
East Meets West Conference
Ford
Good Clean Food Hawaii
Hawaii VA Games
Hawaii Venture Capital Association
Hawaiian Airlines
Hele Fitness
Hi Town Fitness
HIM Ministries
Ho’omana Strength and Conditioning
HobNob Invites
Interlulb Group
Intl Interior Design Association Hawaii
Kingdom Currency Clothing
Koho‘ia
KU Body Club
Lescher Advertising
Lulu’s Leis & Bouquets
Make A Wish Hawaii
Mana Up
Meli James
Motion + Story Films
Myron Kamihara for Senator
Na Leo Ukulele Co.
New Hope Hawaii
NIN
Not That This
One Love Ministries
Pacific Bridge Holdings
Pacific Rim University
Reality HNL
Relevant Ministries
Respect The Corners
Rise Hi
Shakas & Snatches Fitness Brand
South Shore Grill
Spike and Serve Volleyball Club
Straits Intl.
Sullivan Mehuela Lee Law
Sultan Ventures
Taken Not Given Gym
The Jungle Gym Hawaii
Toyota Camry
Tyler Wallach
U.S. Navy FES Hawaii
Up & Down Sizing
US SKI Cross team
Viejo Strong Fitness Brand
ViewSense
Warner Bros.
Wilson Okamoto Inc.
WOD For Wishes