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We specialize in visually communicating the message and personality behind your business.

Our passion for creative thinking and contemporary design is what drives us to produce unique campaigns and brands that speak volumes.

Knowing the importance of impeccable design and individual style, we come together as a strong team of right-sided thinkers to bring all our knowledge and capabilities to your brand.

Our mix of dedicated and multitalented visual artists has been launching, re-branding, and enhancing businesses across Canada, the US, and Mexico for over 17 years.

theteam

Rene Quijada

mastermind ART DIRECTOR

ALFONSO QUIJADA

Creative Producer | Sales

JOEY POBLADOR Designer Outlaw JOEY POBLADOR Designer Outlaw Joey first learned how to speak by looking at his father's books on art and gazing at their pretty pictures. His first words were drawings on paper, and his favourite stories were those of colours and paint. Not one to be usually tied down, he has also traveled and lived abroad to broaden his horizons. In Japan, he gained new experiences, met different people and learned a different way of speaking and seeing things. In Vancouver, Canada he has learned to further visually articulate himself and found a new home. As a graphic designer and visual communicator, Joey is always quick to temper the thirst and drive for creativity with hard work. With an attention to detail and well-structured concepts and ideas, Joey's aim is to provide clients with quality design solutions to suit their needs—solutions, keenly derived from observations of the world at large.	SHAY NAMAZI Coffee-fueled Designer SHAY NAMAZI Coffee-fueled Designer Growing up in a house full of her mother's paintings, Shay had become fascinated by the visual world from an early age. Having giving up on becoming an astronaut, she started her true call, making art. Starting out with her Middle Eastern influenced design to incorporating minimalist Dutch aesthetic, shay has shown originality and complexity throughout her work. Graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a design degree and showcased in Icograda's case studies for her innovative approaches to design education, she has experienced that the process, the very client/ designer collaboration, is as important as the final product. Lucky to be where she is now, Shay is always striving to learn more and getting absorbed into the flow of creating.	SETH MACBETH Visual Communicator Taskmaster SETH MACBETH Visual Communicator Taskmaster Strange for a name to rhyme like that, but Seth loves it and the brand she has come to create based around it’s memorable peculiarity. Seth has a passion for creativity and imagination, and as an illustrator she has a keen eye for originality and design. For her it is vital to reflect yourself in your creative process, whether it be illustration, photography or a website. It’s the personal that counts, and she strives to get to know all the little details that make you and your project individual. After managing a commercial art studio, a chain of candy stores and her own brand of jewelry and accessories, Seth is ready to take on the next big project and help turn it into something outstanding. No stranger to dealing with deadlines and the pressures that can come with managing large projects, Seth is professional, cool headed and a master at client relations. A British girl through and through, she knows that with a cup of tea in hand, there's nothing you can't solve.	ALISON ENSWORTH Wordsmith Copywriter ALISON ENSWORTH Wordsmith Copywriter As a lifelong Vancouverite and a naturally free thinker, she reveres the innovative, the unique, and the extraordinary. She is driven by intrigue and curiosity – an incessant thirst for ideas and stories. She seeks the most colourful path from innocence to experience. Alison has been writing avidly since she was little, and hopes never to stop. Her career as a freelance writer thus far has dedicated her pen to many different endeavours, including local and international not-for-profit projects, online magazines, business media and communications, and advertising content. She has particular interest in the arts, interior & graphic design, culture & travel, and ecology. With any luck, she’ll put many of these inspirations to words as she cultivates her new place with Kihada Design.
ESSENIN QUIJADA Photographer \| Web ESSENIN QUIJADA Photographer \| Web Essenin Kihada with a passion for photography, has photographed a variety of subjects in the 12+ years his been shooting professionally. In the last five years or so he’s focusing on his work for Headshots, Weddings, Food, and Stock Photography. Creating some of the most incredible images in the industry Essenin is an active artistic contributor photographer to one of the world’s leading royalty-free stock agencies, the result unmatched ability to supply clients with the highest quality photography out there. Essenin has outstanding bold imagery to cherish and exhibit.	BERNARDO GARCIA graphic design ninja BERNARDO GARCIA graphic design ninja Hailing from a distant district of Lima, Peru, Bernardo Garcia realized he needed to seek new horizons where he could put his graphic arts abilities to the test. With his creative marketing and advertising accreditations from Universidad de Lima and Underground Advertising of Buenos Aires in hand, he pursued the promise of opportunity to Canada. There, he further explored his passion for advertising, design and illustration, honing his skills at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts). Today, he combines his years in the Latin-American market with his latest experiences in Canada to deliver a remarkably valuable one-two punch of creative dexterity. Always looking for new ways to stretch his insuppressible imagination, Bernardo brings unwavering vigour and ingenuity to the table with every new project at hand.	JOHN IMBONG web development monster JOHN IMBONG web development monster It’s quite interesting the way John's college classmates strove to be creative directors when all he wanted was to become a programmer. Despite studying as a designer, John’s desire for a challenge brought him into the world of programming where he made apps and games. After years of honing his craft, John is no longer a stranger to speaking in web conferences and local universities as well as writing web articles for popular web design sites. When not busy working on projects, John likes to contribute to the development community by assisting in open source projects alongside other great developers all over the world and by releasing his own private repositories for public use that others may grow from his own experiences as a developer.