![]() So by the time that I finally got my green card in 2020, I was able to call and email people and be like, ‘Hey, here’s what I do. “I built a portfolio over two years that looked like it could have been client work. “At first, I was really faking it till you make it,” she recalls. The only snag? Fierro couldn’t actually get paid for her food illustrations because didn’t have a green card. “There was a lot of cutting out paper and studying the basic elements of design, like contrast, balance, and scale.” When she decided to follow her heart and try her hand at food illustration, she found she had all the experience she needed to thrive. “I learned that all those hours spent on Tumblr, saving graphics and looking at fonts, is called graphic design and that you could do that for a living,” she says of her college experience. She studied design and typography - specifically International Typographic Style (also called Swiss Style) at Kent State University - which provided a foundation that allowed her to secure roles in graphic design, UI/UX design, product design, and art direction. The long journey to this point, however, is partially responsible for Fierro’s success. But she didn’t turn her passion for food into a career until recently: She only went full-time with her freelance food and beverage illustration work in November 2022. Her favorite childhood memories include watching her parents cook and gathering around the table as a family to eat. ![]() Growing up in Udine, Italy, a northeastern city about an hour from Venice, she spent countless hours in her father’s pizza shop. ![]() It makes sense that Marianna Fierro loves food. In How I Got My Job, folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job.
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