Senior Brand Designer at Apple · M.F.A. Graphic Design, RISD
Priya graduated from SCAD with a stunning portfolio of academic projects nobody had ever seen. Her dream was Apple. Her reality was a $14/hr coffee shop job.
Her portfolio at graduation was academic. Forkaia® turned it into shipped, in-market brand systems for real companies.
Priya's first Forkaia® brief was a complete identity system for one of our DTC portfolio brands. She delivered three directions instead of one and a 28-page brand guide. The founder used it untouched.
Over 8 months Priya designed brand systems for 6 Forkaia® partners. Every system shipped. Every system is still in market. That's a portfolio no design school can manufacture.
She applied to RISD's M.F.A. graphic design program with Forkaia recommendation letters. Admitted with a teaching assistantship that covered tuition.
Pentagram New York pulled her resume off our talent feed. She interned, then was hired full-time. Two years later, Apple's brand systems team recruited her directly.
Priya's brand work is sitting on shelves you've walked past.
Every stage of Priya's Forkaia® journey was tracked — from first signup to placement to where they are today.
Portfolio strong, no professional shipped work.
Assigned identity system brief.
Founder uses it untouched.
All in market today.
Forkaia recommendation letter cited specifically in admission email.
Pulled directly from Forkaia talent feed.
Cold email referencing her Pentagram work.
Working on retail and packaging systems.
Forkaia® doesn't just claim outcomes — we document them. Priya's journey produced a complete paper trail of artifacts, each verifiable through our credentialing system.
Priya's story is one of thousands. Forkaia® alumni are at Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman, SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and 600+ other companies.
See all alumni outcomes →Every Forkaia® alumnus started exactly where you are. The platform handled the rest.