photo by Tim Kettering

My name’s Pepe. I have been a graphic designer since 1995. Just right after I graduated from Gallaudet University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. I’ve been loving this career! To create anything from scratch is totally fun. You never get bored with it. So, after various design jobs, my curiosity on how people created the web was growing and decided to head back to school. I’ve attended at Art Institute of San Francisco in California. At the school, I’ve learned that technology never stay the same. I have to learn new web language on my own when plain old HTML isn’t enough. Kept at it and never gave up. New CSS3, nifty HTML5, WordPress and some CMS. Never stop, keep on chugging.

To keep my creative juice flowing, I have to keep my eyes wide open to the world, from online to print, from the ground we stand on to the stars. The more you use your eyes the more you see, so get your eyes off your smartphone and look. Museums are one of the places that keep my artistic inspirations at the highest level. There are many, Prado in Madrid, Guggenheim in New York City, DeYoung in San Francisco, and so forth. When I visited a city I’ve never been to before, the first thing I look for are art museums. Magazines do a good job of helping my understanding of everything about communication arts. I can pick a few favorites, Bike of UK for the excellent layout and photography, Juxtapoz Magazine for their off-the-wall imagery, Wired Mags for their awesome typographic layout, and yet there are so many to list. Creativity never stops.

The outdoors always beckons me. You would find me mountain biking on some strange and technical in some where about. You find my friends spotting me while I’m bouldering a difficult problem anywhere in the world. Did somebody say “Bishop”? If you see a big black Ducati bike with a top box donning a white Apple logo sticker zipping on switchback roads then you just been passed by me. Yup, I am that fast! Ah, the outdoors, the serenity, the quietness, the coolness, and, ooo, fresh air.