“I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Tara Macolino since 2008. Tara is everything you’d want in a designer – creative, thoughtful, responsive, and timely. She seeks to understand her client’s long-term vision and makes sensible recommendations that are suitable for any budget.

Since founding Cork and Tin, I’ve trusted her to create a wide variety of sales and marketing materials for our spirits clients as well as my company’s own services deck and website design, which has been met with wide acclaim. I’ve found Tara to be an absolute pleasure to work with. I give The Hospitable Designer my highest recommendation.”

“I’ve worked with Tara consistently in past years on a diverse range of projects for the New York Marriott Marquis’ food & beverage team. From concepting and creating over 10 pieces of marketing collateral for the annual New Year’s Eve celebration, to smaller projects such as restaurant/drink menus and digital signage for specific promotions - I’ve always been extremely satisfied with the quality of Tara’s work. The team at the hotel has been very pleased as well. She has an excellent creative eye and attention to detail. I always know she’ll come back with something beautiful, and she really knows and understands her industry. It’s a pleasure to work with Tara, and I highly recommend her.”

“If it wasn’t for Tara’s creativity, attention to detail and patience we would not have been able to secure close to $250k in business in only 1 year. By creating the experience for the New Year’s Eve event at the Marriott Marquis, the hotel has given us the rights to the rest of the years promotion. I commend her ability to balance multiple projects and deadlines while executing them flawlessly. My favorite things about Tara’s designs are that they are unique and when I present them to my customers their only comment is ‘Let’s do it’.

For one specific project, Tara changed the way we showcase wines at wine dinners. She created a wine card which gave the customer the ability to write notes, see a picture of the bottle, and bound them with a ring so it would be easy for the guests to take it home. (WOW)... Tara’s creativity changed the way The View restaurant has executied their VIP dinners. I cannot find the words to share how much I’ve valued our partnership.”

“I have worked closely with Tara for the past three years, and during this time she has been an integral part of helping to grow business through her design knowledge and ability. Tara has spearheaded large, complicated, corporate-group menu design projects as well as small, family-business projects. Her creativity and unique ability to personalize designs to each individual customer has made her valuable asset to growing our sales. I have yet to find another designer that is capable of the same kind of creativity and ability to work with clients. She truly is amazing at what she does.”

“Tara and I were colleagues at the School of Visual Arts and have collaborated on numerous projects since. She is a pleasure to work with because she is always reliable, is solution-oriented, and brings fresh and new ideas to each project. She has proven to be a very strong leader as well as a great team player. Most recently, we completed several murals together at a charter school in Queens, NY. Thanks to her organization and leadership, we were able to successfully complete the murals in a very short time frame. I would gladly work with Tara again on any project!”