CMYK13
rembrandtjurin
Marta
Custic
Dennis
Eliezer Bueno
Designer since:
Designer since:
Location:
Location:
It’s worth stepping out of your
comfort zone. It’s a fantastic way
of expanding your skills.
The things I learn every day make
me better than I was yesterday.
Marta, an Australian native, moved to
Dennis is a force to be reckoned with in
Croatia when she was a teenager and had
the world of packaging design. From his
to choose a type of high school. This
design studio in Davao City, he caters to a
meant making an important career
number of international clients, many of
decision sooner than she had planned, but
whom he found through 99designs.
2012
Croatia
2009
Philippines
Marta accepted the challenge and chose
graphic arts and technology. Later, at
If you ask Dennis how he got his start in
university, she dove deeper into the
graphic design, he’s likely to tell you about
printing process, improving her under-
the crayoned stick figure he drew in first
standing of what happens to designs after
grade, but he didn’t stop there. As a
they’re handed over to the client. “That
teenager, he entered poster-making
greatly affects the way I design when
contests and won a few of them. While
creating print work,” Marta says. “I always
studying computers in college, he worked
bear in mind the final product and where
as a cartoonist for the campus magazine.
and how it will be used.”
We could say, from here, his course was
set!
Now, she has come full circle, passing on
what she has learned to other designers,
creating blog posts and webinars to help
them develop their skills.