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I am Kathleen Joyce Figueroa or KAT JOY. I am a fine art artist turned digital designer/artist, photographer, video maker, web developer, and more. My design career began as I needed to mock up the signs and murals, that I would paint, for nearly eight years.
During and even before high school I was into photography, video editing, and drawing. I have a BFA in Drawing and Painting, from CSU Long Beach. So, my strong fine arts foundation and new-found passion for the Graphic Arts and Web Technology was a seamless progression. 10+ years of study and professional work in the fine and digitals arts has given me unique abilities to take on a wide variety of projects with solid skills and confidence.
Today, while I continue to gain experience in ever-changing best practices of digital media, I remain open for engaging opportunities with limitless possibilities.
Examples of my work are followed, displaying a range of styles and for different types of industries and projects.
Spec-Tek Wheel Flyer Graphic for Instagram Rucci Forged, Montebello, CA
Facebook ads.
Facebook ads.
DESIGN / HTML EMAIL
HTML Email smaple
HTML Email smaple
DESIGN / GRAPHICS for PRINTS
Original design by Kathleen Figueroa. Message on t-Shirt.
Movie poster
Made for 4 color process print for t-shirts of a photo of the original Behan's An Irish Pub sign.
Image manipulation and text placement for marketing poster.
Original concept to creation for marketing postcard.
Image manipulation (each flower, fruit, and background were single seperate images needing trimming and cleaned and then arranged) and text placement for marketing poster.
Poster for Bill Warmboe's space at Stuff, 150 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94103 US
Poster for World AIDS Days awareness
DESIGN / PACKAGE DESIGN
Package design mock-up for CBD beverage
Package design mock-up for pet care product
Package design mock-up for CBD Chocolate
Product mock up
Label layout
Package layout following SpaRx style guide.
Logo, package design
Package designs for boxed lighting.
Package designs for hardware part.
Photo-image manipulation for marketing postcard.
DESIGN / BRAND and LOGOS
Motion graphic to show finishing touches of logo design and branding development.
Eight various logos and symbols
DESIGN / ILLUSTRATIONS
Medical illustrations. Accurate prep to scale drawings for trompe l’oeil lettering painting. Line art and product illustrations.
Lavender line art drawings for product labels. Product labels with selected illustrations.
Sagital view drawing of Periostomy procedure
Forehead with nerve selection
Sample: Accurate prep to scale drawings for trompe l’oeil lettering painting.
DESIGN / "ABSTRACTS"
iPad Drawings
Plant
drawing, untitled
drawing, untitled
drawing, untitled
drawing, untitled
DESIGN / "FINE ART"
Hand Painted signs. Paintings. Drawing.
Trompe loiel painting lettering at San Martin Catholic Hospital in Las Vegas for Evans and Brown Co. Me and Christine Bosworth. About 8' across.
Wedding ceremony painting. Acrylic on canvas, 4'x 3'.
My reproduction painting of Tamara De Lempicka's Spring 1928. Acrylic on canvas, 7'x9'.
Trompe loiel lettering painting at San Martin Catholic Hospital in Las Vegas for Evans and Brown Co. Me and Christine Bosworth. About 8.5' across
Custom sign made for over elevator. It is in Greek for something like, "Only those knowledgeable in 'something' may enter".
Large mural of Oakville Grocery on wall in Oakville Grocery Market, Cupertino, CA in 2004.
Trompe loiel lettering as book spines at Easton Library in Burlingame, CA. Done for Evans and Brown Co.