Rafael Vien Santillan is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman with a degree in Architecture.
Raf is adept at many design tools and languages. His growing passion for the digital arts makes him a complete package for your content creation needs.
As a student of Zuitt Bootcamp, his current love for design has reached a new level. This passion brings him closer and closer to becoming a well-rounded full-stack engineer.
ARCHITECTURE
Working for a small architectural design studio has led Raf to work on a selection of architectural projects— from classy interior design projects to budget-friendly home renovations. His love for designing spaces is his first and one of his true passions.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Raf is a co-owner of ToeBeans Studio, a graphic design studio focusing on vector art and illustrations for pet lovers. Some of his works include logo design and branding, vector artwoks, and digital presentation projects for companies.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Raf is a certified Zuitt Bootcamper. At Zuitt, he learned to be a full-stack engineer. He is now adept at designing front-end web development using HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, as well as managing back-end systems through MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.
Architecture Projects
Working for a start up design firm allowed me to handle various different projects. The projects ranged from residential and commercial to budget and high-end projects.
Above are some of the notable works where I contributed in the design process. I was involved in the design conceptualization to model making and rendering, and even up to presentation and construction.
Office Layout Submission
This was created as a part of an application to a corporate BPO. All elements were designed to cater to the brand and personality of the company.
Design and concepts were all original and created in just one week. This included planning, modeling, and presentation.
Logo Design and Branding
Company Profile
Pride Sticker Merch
Vector Art Commissions
Graphic Design Projects
Venturing into graphic design, I have handled projects ranging from personal commisions and merchandise to logo design and branding infographics for a company that I co-own. In 2021 I also started a small business for vector graphics.
The design language that I learned from architecture can be easily applied in terms of designing graphic materials. I always make sure to balance everything and create something that is not only aestheticaly appealing but also caters to the needs of the client.
BiLDR
Bildr is a mock-up e-commerce MERN application that was built from scratch using all the tools that I learned at the Zuitt Coding Bootcamp. This served as my final project as requirement to finish the course.
Combining front-end designing and back-end management, this tested my abilities as a full-stack engineer. It helped me understand how to merge the designing aspect of web-development and the intricate database management systems of back-end engineering.
Web Designing
Having worked as an assistant for an Autralian based web-developer, I have created various design templates for website themes. Each design theme having its own unique design language and character.
These works are all made from a designer application having to come up with a consistent and cohesive design language per theme that will make for a visually appealing and user-friendly website.
EVERLESS
Everless is an innovative SmartBag solution to single-use plastics. It's a well-engineered product that has an autofold technology that makes it shrink into a size of credit card.
This is an e-commerce application and the whole site creation was handled was handled individually, from design layout, product visualization,and web-site development. This was made possible by a combination of a third party website builder and customized code for an added functionality. This is a freelance project taking around 40 hours to complete.
