We recently connected with Cesar Marquez and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Cesar thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What do you think it takes to be successful?

I think the main thing to get a successful project is consistency in your project and try do don’t lose your goal and fight to bring it to life

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

The main thing about our wor its we love to print we love to se an talk with our customers about the project and the ideas behind each illustration and try to understand we’re they come and the meaning of ech color or something related to the logos, our main work is re-editing images to make them printable in a different surface (almost garments but could be paper an stickers)

so we try to teach the people and designers that work with us, to make better logos or illustrations that can be printed in this method, its not only have an Image and print it, there’s a big iceberg behind the process from draw to print,
Also we work with different visual artists in the Tijuana – San Diego artist

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Im start printing since 2004 it was more like a hobby and i use to do more street art projects and that’s when i started loving this kind of art, but im not working on this since 2004, after i finish my high school i started the university in the career of digital arts but i didn’t finish it because i moved to the usa to work and help my fam when the economy gets bad, so i was open to work on anything, in 2010 i worked building comercial air conditioners for building like school or hotel or any big buildings, after that 2014 i change to work at a company that makes cabinets for homes, all this time never quit to draw and attempt to be better doing my original hobby, and finally in 2016 i found a work in a screenprinting shop when i found the best way to polish my skills printing and learn about the equipment that i need to star my own small business, All that time i never lose my vision, and i feel that jobs i had was like a only a steps to get my goal done, so in 2018 i decided to start my own trip in the industry and consolidate my project

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Im always trying to do my best on each print, so the quality and the costumer service are always the first thing to think about it For this reason i have the best inks and always trying to learn an studying the new process and the innovation on this work because never stops yes i feel frustrated some times but its not a reason to quit or get dawn in my job so i always thinking about the costumer and the final project,

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