WHO’S BEHIND THAT CREATIVE MIND?

 

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ

GRAPHIC DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR

What’s up bro! Let me tell you about myself! I am a Graphic Designer (obviously haha). I started my design career a year and a half before college graduation, working on small gigs such as commissions and designs for the many organizations I was a part off. June of 2022 marks two years since that faithful feat and I couldn’t be more satisfied with what I have accomplished so far today ( 06/10/22 ). I am currently based in a small town in the south western tip of the state of New Mexico just outside of the Gila National Forest… Everyone please give it up for Silver City, NM. I was brought here thanks to all of my past experience and because Western New Mexico University was in need of a new addition to their team, that’s where my “first job outside of college” became a good story to tell.

Here at WNMU I work constantly to promote not only our brand but furthermore convince our viewer why they made the best choice regarding their education by coming to school here. One of my biggest projects and concerns since I joined the team last summer (2021) has been our 4k initiative, a project dating back prior to Covid-19 where the school had a common goal of three years to reach four thousand students (I can’t stress enough we are a really small campus). A summary of what I do on a normal day to day:

  • Branding Campaigns

  • WNMU Mustang Swag (gear)

  • Event logos

  • Social Media Assets

  • Printed work- Posters, Flyers, Business cards, etc…

  • And many more

Things I love:

Video Games (Fifa, Assassins Creed, Watch Dogs) | Tattoos | Travel | Side Hustle ( personal art) | Concerts (both live and on youtube) | My heritage | Working Out | Cajun Wings ( Wingstop please) | Coffee | Weekends | Aguas Frescas & Mexican Food

Awards cause hustle is well paid:

American Advertising Awards 2021:

  • Golden addy x3 | Old Tascosa Beer label and Brand concept, and Pacifico Beer label.

  • Silver addy x3 | Pacifico Beer rebrand, and El Tapatio restaurant Rebrand and Icons.

  • Bronze addy x1 | El Tapatio restaurant brand concept.

  • Special Judges Award | Old Tascosa Beer label concept.

May 20 (yesterday) was an inspiration from stuff found in my desk to create the letter of my first name: Miguel/ Mexico/ Morelia/ Michoacán! Isn’t it funny that “M” starts the city I was born in as well as the state and the c
Finally today’s challenge (caught up in a way!) May 19: brought to you by @melcerri who combined imagery with doodling! Which I absolutely adored! In a way the piece and the process took me back to @yourbuddymeg workshop at @cropcons (post comi
May 17! Was a prompt from @wallywzrd which advised us to recreate a prompt based on a famous painting/ style! It was to good to be true! I happened to have buried in my procreate app: a project sketch that never saw the light for this last year&rsquo
May 16! A little choppy of a design but that’s the purpose! @hello.shannon guided us to one of the weirdest/ out of the ordinary (personal opinion of course) dast designs I done! Colors had to be random so using @coolors.co I got the most rando
For May 12 the challenge consisted of bringing our inner Asshole! (Our true self) in advice/ guidance from @jill_dehaan also again @goodtype amazing lineup so far! The inspiration for this came from my late weekend nights back in college: playing vid
Okay so the next (5) posts are me playing catch-up after arriving back in New Mexico from DALLAS! May 11 or last week’s Wednesday post goes thanks to the motivation and input of @lettering_ladies also thank you @goodtype for the amazing prompts
Alright y’all it’s May 10 and todays challenge was working with type inside a confined space! Thank you to @marykatemcdevitt for the prompt! And @goodtype we keep going strong! I always wanted to talk my own version of these famous phrase
Quick little illustration for today’s #wakeandmake challenge! Topic/process thanks to @simonandmoose and @goodtype! A little late but can’t wait for a few hours to do tomorrow’s challenge! #doggo #wolf #dog #perro #queonda #wienerdo