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Who is Gabriela Marquez? I stumbled upon her work while browsing Spraygraphic.com.  Her unique eye caught mine and I couldn’t help but bring her work directly to you

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I was born in Puebla, Mexico. I

grew up there, like a normal kid, playing, attending to school, so normal that my parents thought I would become a doctor or an architect or an engineer, they never suspected I’d decide to go for advertising.

Graduated in 1999 in Advertising with specialization in Marketing in Mexico.
I made my social service at the State University’s radio station (Radio BUAP) as producer and coordinator for the radio program of Classic music “Dialogos con la Musica” at the same time I was Chief editor and concept creator for the cultural magazine Citaris until 2002

In 2002, I worked in Photopia production house which clients included furniture designers, Radio and Communication Company and politic campaigns. My functions were: to develop Marketing strategies, creation of storyboards and copywriting for TV and radio commercials.

During this time I did freelance jobs, sometimes as a designer, or as creative director, photographer, project manager, cameraman…

In 2003 I leave Mexico and travel to Europe, basically just traveling and doing small freelance design jobs on the way.

In 2004 I moved to Dubai; I was hired by an advertising agency as a Jr. Art Director. While I got familiarized with the Middle East market I made time to travel around and keep collecting experience and pictures; After 2 years in 2006 I joined a new company where I started to specialize particularly in brand marketing, corporate communication and advertising mainly related to the real estate industry of this country, which is very fast speed changing.

I resigned recently because I am interested to start to experiment in “new” areas of marketing and advertising, specially online and viral and interactive (my previous job had some limitations of priority- budget -execution- regarding this.)

If you ask me I don’t have a concrete project for the future, now that I am taking a break I think I will spend some time doing what I enjoy the must, traveling and photography.