About Artique Design Works
‘Artique’ – artistic and unique
Well, that’s how she defined it when she came up with it.
Artique Design Works has existed, perhaps not officially, but in some form, since 1999. April’s mentor taught her HTML hand-coding and basic web design in high school and then, during her college years, she supported herself designing websites, logos and other illustrated marketing material via a word of mouth network. It was while interning in the IT department of her first engineering internship that she picked up advanced software skills, including Adobe’s suite of software. From then, she began to design websites, logos and marketing pamphlet using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and MS Front Page… fast forward to today, she extensively uses WordPress as well as several open source illustration tools on her Macbook.
While she’s is a Mechanical Engineer by degree, she has never abandoned her desire to create digital spaces and has maintained Artique Designs Works active since college.
You’ll also notice through this site, she is quite active in textile design work. Through the medium of fabric, she creates designs and also enjoys re-imagining existing designs with her own interpretation through textiles.
She currently lives and works remote from Phoenix, AZ and daily creates digital designs as well as textile designs.