FreelanceGraphic Designer / Art Director / Web Developer
Mar. 1995 - Mar. 2003Miami, Fl & Atlanta, GAJavier started his design career as freelance illustrator for graphic designers. His interest in graphic design grew quickly and he studied design fundamentals, and a few courses to learn how to use the tools. He quickly started to work with local magazines to help structure pages and photography along with typesetting and layouts. This quickly turned into opportunities to create campaign designs for local companies in Miami and Atlanta. His obsession with the web took him down a path to learn web development and in 1999, he moved to Atlanta to pursue a career in digital design and technology. While he immersed himself into network and back-end technology, he continued to freelance creating small business websites, collateral, identity and packaging design.