Who's Rafael?
Someone
- methodic,
- active,
- driven,
- curious,
- bold,
- humble.
With 10+ years of experience, Rafael Ricardo has become an adaptive man of independent thinking and strong contrasts by enjoying both analog and digital experiences, who constantly looks out for refinement, new things to learn, and timelessness & growth.
He was born in the late eighties to be a kid of the 90s and a teen during the first decade of the 21st Century. This led him to be one of those youngsters with the sufficient privilege to experience firsthand how technology evolves constantly while also being exposed to a wide range of interests and influences.
These interests go from sports, photography and books, to music collection in physical formats or playlist creations, and now there is a growing passion for the world of motorcycling.
He studied in different schools before being admitted into the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, to obtain with a great effort his bachelor's degree in Graphic design in 2014.
During college, time was passing by and also the need to gain real-world experience kept growing, so his first steps [2009] were taken into the now-extinct Valenzuela Klenner Art Gallery in Bogotá by taking some photos, managing the contents of the website and also by giving support to the gallerist during local exhibitions. In early 2012 he worked briefly in a company focused on print production to understand the real difference between CMYK and RGB.
In later 2012, Rafael started to work at a call center so he could afford the latter stages of his graphic design studies. Initially, it wasn't more than a job to pay college fees but then he understood (apart from perfecting his english skills) the importance of addressing customer service from the design perspective because we're human beings after all, sometimes we like to take care of each other, and according to him, both visual language and culture play an enormous role on keeping the world sane (to some extent).