Rebeca Méndez collaborated with Chee Salette, an architect, and landscape architect, to create a memorial in Tucson, Arizona, United States. This Memorial honors the 2011 shooting of the victims and survivors that wanted to engage in democracy at Representative Gabrielle Giffords’ “Congress on your Corner”. The gunman fired thirty-three rounds, killing six and wounding eleven…
Rebeca Méndez was commissioned by LA Metro to create a mural for the Expo Line/Crenshaw Station. Alongside local artisans, they created a beautiful glass mosaic mural ten feet by ninety-six feet in 2019. The title of the mural is At Same Time, a portrait of an entire day in Los Angeles, California. Between January and…
“Méndez has committed to diversity and inclusion, and she is a role model for aspiring young women designers across Latin America.” – UCLA, Design Media Arts, 2022, https://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=32 Rebeca Méndez was born in Mexico City in 1962. She immigrated to California, United States, in 1980. There, Rebeca graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Design…
Done in 2014, this branding project done by Sami Hayek and Rebeca Mendez for Latino Brands Inc. was for a new cafe concept. This concept was around the warmth and homely feel of a latina grandmother’s home and kitchen. This project perfectly encompasses some of the things that Rebeca Mendez stands and designs for. Through…
This piece, commissioned by Tsunami Asian Grill Restaurant, is a 20,000 square foot long collage that spans the entirety of the grill, depicting a Japanese woman seeming to dissolve into the water. This piece interested me the most out of the others that I could’ve worked on, because of its sheer size, and how the…