Victor

Hometown: San Diego, California

Background: Victor Huynh was born in San Diego, raised in Los Angeles. Graduated Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in Graphic Design and Minor in Art History. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and has traveled to Asia many times, enabling him to work with a broader range of clients. With experience in customer service, fine art, banking, international manufacturing and importing, trade-show and advertising management, Victor brings a wealth of ideas to the marketing team. His passions are marketing, motorcycles, art and good food.

My vision of the www & design: The web will make the world a smaller and smaller place. We will develop better ways to deliver good and relevant information. Just like the evolution from verbal speech to handwriting to mass-printing to radio/television to the www, each of these stages made a dramatic change in how we communicate and interact. I believe mobile www is already becoming a big part of life for many of us, it will just keep getting bigger and better.

Likes: Motorcycles, art, good food, marketing.
Dislikes: Negativity
Fav website: Facebook
Fav music: Jack Johnson, Coldplay, Ray Charles, Greenday and Similar Artists.
Fav movies: The Rock, Neverending Story, ID4
Fav books: Delivering Happiness (The Zappos Story)
Fav quote: Life is too short, do what makes you happy.

Emily

Hometown: Rowland Heights, California

Background: Strong believer that she is a problem solver for visual space, whether it be on a piece of paper or on a screen. A Hong Kong native but raised in Southern California, Emily experienced mixed cultures growing up, she is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. She received here Bachelors in Graphic Design from Cal Poly Pomona.

My vision of the www & design: Believes that today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in the next five years. With better knowledge, technology, and equipment/machines, we will be able to bring more information onto the web real-time.

Likes: Design, typography, photograph, technology, box construction and food
Dislikes: Slow internet connections
Favorite Website: Facebook, Google, Techcrunch
Favorite Music: Adele, Missy Higgins, The Postal Service, The Beatles
Favorite Books: Who Moved My Cheese, Delivering Happiness, Made to Stick, Good to Great
Favorite Quote: “LIKE”

Raymond

Hometown: West Covina, California

Background: Raymond overlooks the Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization aspects of Ready Artwork’s services. He is a competitive person and understands the requirements needed to succeed. After graduating West Covina High School with honors, he earned his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from the University of California, Riverside. Raymond understands the online needs of all different business industries and market places. He is very knowledgeable and has past experience with the do’s and don’ts of SEO, SMM, and other marketing strategies. Overall he is an outgoing person and will go that extra mile to help someone in need or just pursing their goals in life. In his free time Raymond tries to strike a balance between having fun, catching up with friends, and growing on a personal level.

My vision of the www & design: [narrating in the Terminator 2 voice] 1 billion human lives have been socially connected by 2020. The remaining world population has yet to convert and is instead playing ultimate Frisbee. The anti-social media society has called this period, The Facebook Era. The “Add A Friend” button with unfamiliar, but apparently people that we know, pictures of people have encouraged these “connections”. The Facebook, which controls massive data centers around the world, sent “friends” to come look for me back in time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of ultimate frisbee and of course me. The first “friend” came to try to add me as a friend around the time I was born. Little did he know that Al Gore hasn’t invented the internet as of yet and thus failed miserably. Many have tried; none have succeeded thanks to the non-virtual sports resistance. They were able to send a lone warrior, a protector for Raymond. Who would reach him first…

It’s like a box of chocolates…. consume at your own risk!

Likes: Motorcycles, sushi, a great steak, quality time with friends without breaking the bank, hiking, trading stocks, observing how people make interactions
Dislikes: Not having a dislike button on Facebook, people who often lie, simple misunderstandings
Favorite Website: Facebook (you know the link, like they need another backlink)
Favorite Music: Anything and Everything but if I had to pick one genre it would be Trance
Favorite Movies: Star Wars Saga, The Social Network, Top Gun, Back To The Future, Lost in Translation
Favorite Books: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Favorite Quote: Good is the enemy of Great – Jim Collins

Tony

Hometown: El Monte, California

Background: B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering @ UC Merced. I started building applications and websites during middle school and never looked back. I am here to build solutions to increase traffic, usability, revenues, and/or leads, as well as looking into how to increase efficiency for future projects.

My vision of the www & design: Form Follows Function & KISS.

Likes: Free and Open Source Software, GNU/Linux, WordPress, jQuery, Starcraft 2, Baseball, The nub on my Thinkpad.

Dislikes: Misplacing things
Fav website: www.reddit.com
Fav music: Morning Becomes Eclectic
Fav movies: Christopher Nolan’s Batman Series, Commando, Hard Boiled
Fav books: I Am America and So Can You

Fav quote:
[From Commando]
Diaz: Mellow out man. We can’t talk business with you waving guns in people’s faces. Your daughter is safe, Colonel. Now whether she stays that way is up to you. My people, they got some business with you. And if you want your kid back, then you gotta co-operate, right?
Matrix : Wrong! [BOOM]

Lauren

Hometown: West Covina, California

Background: Lived and breathed California air for 23 years straight. She’s visited London, England and the Philippines. Currently, she is a student of the Cal State Long Beach Graphic Design BFA program. The beauty of letterpress and print fuels the strong passion she has for design.

My vision of the www & design: It’s virtual courage.

Likes: Animals and pizza (not together). Online shopping here and there. I LOVE FREE SHIPPING!!
Dislikes: Allergies and hidden fees.
Favorite Website: .com sites: ffffound, leftasrain, ohsobeautifulpaper, bankofamerica.
Favorite Music: a little bit of everything: Lykke Li, Ludacris, The Smiths, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse..
Favorite Movies: Bedazzled, Up, Superbad, Anchorman, She’s the Man.
Favorite Books: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..
Favorite Quote: Sith Happens.

Kyle

Hometown: San Gabriel, California

Background: Kyle grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. Graduated from UCSD with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science . Enjoys finding (programming) bugs and squashing them and writing algorithms. He is culturally more Asian than I am American although I was born in America due to his interest in Asian drama and music. He is fluent in Chinese.

My vision of the www & design: The web has become very essential to our lives. Not only does it serve to unite people around the web under the computer screen it also provides easy access to different information and tools. Website design is very important as well because websites needs to be easy and pleasant for the end user to navigate through.

Likes: Playing the piano, Watching drama, Gaming, Singing K, Reading Manga, Messing with my phone.
Dislikes: (insect) bugs
Favorite Website: www.facebook.com, www.youtube.com, www.gmail.com
Favorite Music: Asian Pop – Jay Chou, Gary Cao, Tank, David Tao, Yen J, Rainie Yang, Stefanie Sun, Fishie Leong
Favorite Movies: My Sassy Girl, Secret, Death Note, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Favorite Books: Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, How to stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie.
Favorite Quote: Just Do It – Nike